Wakefield and District Astronomical Society
Dr Richard Parker is an astrophysicist based at the University of Sheffield and since 2017 has held a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin research fellowship, following previous post-doctoral research positions at ETH …
The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.
**SOLD OUT - Sorry!** Ever looked up at a star-lit sky and wondered about the stories of the stars above? Well now is your chance to find out more! Join …
The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.
Gravitational waves are disturbances in the curvature of spacetime, generated by accelerated masses, that propagate as waves outward from their source at the speed of light. Now that humanity is …
The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.
Dr. Walsh and her colleagues make use of a relatively new technology called the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array, or ALMA for short, which uses the collective view of multiple powerful …
The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.
Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes, but the consideration of environment on how these galaxies evolved has often been ignored. Environment is a difficult concept to quantify and the …
Brad Gibson (Head of Physics and Director of the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Hull) rejoins us to launch us back into full swing with his …
The WADAS Annual General Meeting, where committee posts are up for grabs...!! Rough agenda: Chair's Report Vote of thanks Committee elections Treasurer's Report Future Events AOB
The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.
Dr Brad Gibson returns to kick things off for 2022 with a swift tour around some of the oddest things the Universe has to offer. Join us from 7.30pm in …
The first thursday of the month is our Society Members-Only Club Night... a social gathering for the sharing of hints, tips & experiences.
Due to our usual 3rd Thursday of the month failing on St.Patrick's day, we're switching things up this month. Our next meeting is a social at the Waterloo Pub on …
Dr Marie van de Sande is an astrochemist with a particular interest in molecules and dust around evolved stars. Her research is focussed on developing chemical models for AGB outflows. …
Ever looked up at a star-lit sky and wished upon a ‘shooting star’? Well now is your chance to find out more about meteors! Join us for an evening being …
Everything around us is made up of chemical elements. But where do these elements come from? The answer: stars. The stars that we observe in the night sky undergo many …
It took more than 4 decades to build an observatory that could detect the ripples in spacetime that Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity predicted. In this talk Dr Sue …
Astronomer Chris Lintott explains how you could help astronomers sort through galaxies, explore the surface of Mars, or even discover a planet. This is the story of the Zooniverse, which …
