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Simon Holbeche: The Women who discovered what stars are made of.
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom (Speaker remote via Zoom) Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom101 years ago, a 24-year-old English woman had her astrophysics PhD published based on her work at Harvard College Observatory. It bought together 50 years of effort by Harvard’s computers […]
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Jacco van Loon: Mysterious matter in interstellar space
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomThe light from stars is intercepted by molecules in deep space but we do not know what the majority of these particles are. They appear as absorption features in the […]
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Paul Fellows – Once around the moons of Pluto
Hybrid: University of Wolverhampton & Zoom Room MA030, Wulfruna Building, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomPluto was recognised as a planet in 1930 but appeared to be alone until 1978. The discovery of a large moon, Charon, changed our perspective. With the flyby of the […]