Dark Skies Down Under – Australian astronomy in the 2020s Australia’s vantage point on the Universe gives its astronomers several advantages in the pursuit of their science. One of the […]
This Month we will be screening a recent Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Dr. Robert Jedicke (U of Hawaii) Near-Earth objects present both an existential threat to human civilization and an […]
This month we will be screening a Gresham College video lecture presented by AAS Honorary Member Professor Chris Lintott. In 2017, the Solar System was visited by an object named […]
Continuing with this months theme of the scale of the Universe, Professor Chris Lintott presents a Greshan College video lecture. Island Universes: Discovering Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way The discovery […]
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by LRO have been described as essential for […]