Monthly Meeting April – Little Red Dots
100 years ago this year, Edwin Hubble published the first conclusive evidence that there were galaxies beyond the Milky Way. This lecture, using new results from our latest space telescopes […]
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Stardome Observatory & Planetarium 670 Manukau Road, Epsom, Auckland
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Monthly Meeting May – Rocks from Space
Stardome Observatory & Planetarium 670 Manukau Road, Epsom, AucklandRocks from Space with Professor Jonti Horner Jonti first became interested in astronomy at the age of five, after seeing the BBC TV programme ‘The Sky at Night’, and soon […]
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Monthly Meeting June – The NASA Psyche mission: First Journey to an Unknown World
The NASA Psyche mission is on its way to orbit a small but immensely ancient world in our asteroid belt: A metallic object, the first humans will ever have visited. […]
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Monthly Meeting July – Pluto Isn’t a Planet
Stardome Observatory & Planetarium 670 Manukau Road, Epsom, AucklandIn 2006, the International Astronomical Union adopted a definition of a planet that demoted Pluto to just one of what is likely hundreds of dwarf planets in our Solar System. […]
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Monthly Meeting August – Shining a Light on Dark Matter
Stardome Observatory & Planetarium 670 Manukau Road, Epsom, AucklandCarnegie Science Observatories postdoc Andrew Robertson focuses on one of the key mysteries in contemporary astronomy: the nature of dark matter. We know that this mysterious form of matter makes […]