Paul Money returns with another of his fascinating talks involving the escapades of early space exploration missions. In 1975 NASA launched an ambitious mission to search for life on the Red Planet. Consisting of two orbiters and two landers, most of the emphasis has concentrated on the landers but in this Pt 1 we look …

Dr Susan Cartwright, Senior Lecturer in Particle Physics and Astrophysics at Sheffield University, joins us to explore the topic of Exoplanets... looking at questions such as how do you we find and observe them, and what are the probabilities of finding habitable worlds? Non-members: £3  Members: society rate Image credit: IAU/L. Calçada

Astronomy is mostly a visual and non-experimental science. We can only look at what is out there but can't brings stars and galaxies into the lab. However we can build them inside computers and attempt to simulate them. In this talk, we will see how simulations can show us how the universe evolves and what we can do with …

As is traditional, quizmaster Soupy will present his annual Astronomical Christmas Quiz... with goodies to be won!

Everyone has had life changed by astronomers studying the night sky... it’s a little known fact that some of the most important technological advancements of the past few decades owe a debt of gratitude to the humble astronomer. Professor Gibson joined Hull University in 2015 and established the E.A Milne Centre for Astrophysics, and is …

Dr. Steve Barrett is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Physics, and Principal Scientist of the Surface Science Research Centre at Liverpool University. Recordings of some of his talks are available via Liverpool University’s Live Streaming Service. This particular talk encompasses a brief history of the Hubble Space Telescope and a description of its legacy in …

Prof Brad Gibson returns once again to fill a void with another fascinating lecture... this time, the topic du jour will be Liquid Mirror Telescopes: The Wave of the Future or Just a Ripple? First described by Capocci in 1850 and published by Skey in 1872, LMTs became a serious reality with the UBC/Laval 2.7m …

Paul joins us from the University of Sheffield (where he wears the crown of HoD and Professor of Astrophysics) to give us an overview of massive stars, from the birth in rich star forming regions such as the Orion Nebula and the Tarantula Nebula, through their relatively short lifetimes, initially as luminous blue stars through …

The Moon is a shy body, it only ever shows one sides of itself to the Earth. Before the space age, we had no idea what was on the far side of the Moon. This has led to a number of conspiracy theories that it is a haven for aliens. In this talk, we'll chart …

Dr Sergei Zharkov joins us from the E.A.Milne Centre for Astrophysics to talk about the Solar Interior... beginning with a general introduction to the Sun and solar activity, highlighting the links to space weather. We’ll then delve into our understandings of how such activity is driven, through to our ability to observe and measure processes below …

Paul L Money FRAS, FBIS, is well known for his extensive talks and is the reviews editor of the BBC Sky at Night magazine. He broadcasts occasionally on BBC Radio Lincolnshire and Lincoln City Radio. and has published a night sky guide called Nightscenes since 2000 and more recently has become a novelist with a Ghost Mysteries …