• Monthly Meeting July

    Stardome Observatory & Planetarium 670 Manukau Road, Epsom, Auckland

    The JWST is the most expensive and powerful telescope astronomers have ever constructed. Its launch in 2021 started a new phase in our exploration of the cosmos, with the observatory's […]

  • Monthly Meeting October – The Messy Eating Habits of Black Holes

    Stardome Observatory & Planetarium 670 Manukau Road, Epsom, Auckland

    When an unsuspecting star wanders too close to a supermassive black hole, the star can be ripped apart by the black hole's immense gravity. As the black hole messily feeds […]

  • Monthly Meeting December – The Modern Epicycles of Cosmology

    Stardome Observatory & Planetarium 670 Manukau Road, Epsom, Auckland

    Cosmology is in crisis. We know very little about dark energy and dark matter, two things that cosmologists believe are fundamental to the Universe and integral to the standard model […]