Monthly Meeting May – Rocks from Space
Rocks 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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Stardome Observatory & Planetarium 670 Manukau Road, Epsom, Auckland
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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 […]
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Monthly Meeting September – The hunt for oceans on icy moons
Stardome Observatory & Planetarium 670 Manukau Road, Epsom, AucklandCould there be oceans (and even life) hiding beneath the icy surfaces of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn? This month we will screen a rebroadcast of a Royal Institution […]