'Nova Corona Borealis 1866 was the first Nova to have its spectrum examined.  Eighty years later in 1946 the Nova erupted again, causing great excitement.  Now, after a further eighty years of […]

Special Relativity Without the Maths (or How to Fit a Metre Stick into a Matchbox)You might think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s. You might even […]

NASA’s JUNO mission was launched in August 2011 and has been in orbit over Jupiter’s poles since 4th July 2016, its mission to understand the origin and evolution of the […]

This talk will investigate the astronomical alignments at Stonehenge - both those that are academically accepted and also some others not generally known about. Do they all exist? Are they […]

101 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 […]

The 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 […]

Pluto 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 […]