Names and Catalogues Ever wondered about the designations Astronomical Objects such as M 22, NGC 104, HD 207098, or the names given to comets and asteroids. In this talk we […]
The gas-giant planets of our Solar System have been the subject of interest and study for millennia. Their light and brightness gave them titles from that of Ancient Roman gods. […]
Exploring the Moon What we learned from the Apollo Programme Exploring the Moon What we learned from the Apollo Programme Whether you attended the two previous talks on the […]
This is a screening of a Gresham College Astronomy Lecture. When capturing the first glimpses of the earliest galaxies, the Hubble Space Telescope was focused on a region of space […]
Imagine this: if the Sun were shrunk to the size of a beachball, Earth would be no bigger than a peppercorn, rolling around 30 meters away. That’s how tiny our […]