The latest news from Sunderland Astronomical Society
Something a bit different for the July lecture night. In recent years “Smart Telescopes” have arrived on the astronomy scene. Smart telescopes offer an automated way of doing astronomy and astrophotography, albeit at a quite expensive price. If you have a Seestar S50, or are are thinking of getting one, or would like to know…
Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) is a mission that will revolutionise our understanding of the solar-terrestrial relationship, including the dynamic processes that control phenomena such as the aurora borealis (Norther/Southern Lights). In this fascinating talk Dr Jennifer Carter (Leicester University) will explain how the mission was born from a problem for X-ray astronomers,…
Although it took only three minutes to make our Universe (see ‘Beginning of Everything’) it will take more than a trillion trillion years for it to come to an end. In this talk Dr Steve Barrett (Liverpool University) will talk about this talk looks at what will happen to the Earth, the Sun, our the…
As larger telescopes get, as more light they gather. This together with the wish for higher spatial resolution gives rise to the development of telescopes of larger size. However, while the light gathering power increase works very well, due to the perturbations of our atmosphere the larger telescopes not necessarily deliver images of higher resolution,…
We know surprisingly little about the nature of the stage upon which the universe’s great show plays out. In this talk Graham Darke will take us through the ages, along the way examining humanity’s developing understanding of what space is. It will bring us right up to the modern era where what we know today…
What are galaxies, how are they classified, how are they formed: What do we understand about their lives, and their influence and how many pretty pictures can Julian can fit in one talk.
In this talk Dr Steve Barrett will talk about the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) nearly 3 years after the launch of the JWST on Christmas Day 2021, this shorter talk reviews some of the images and spectra released to date.
The Star of Bethlehem. Talk this Sunday 15th December 7pm. With the academic world closing for Christmas we’re not able to get a guest speaker this month’s talk slot. Therefore Chris Duffy our Chair will do a light hearted topical talk this Sunday on “The Star of Bethlehem“. Assuming the famous star was real, what…
The Sunderland Astronomical Society AGM will be taking place on Sunday 17th November 2024 from 7:00 pm at our base of operations Discovery Room at the Washington Wetlands Centre. SAS members are invited to attend, listen to chair’s reports and vote in the election of the committee and nominations are asked from the SAS members. The agenda is…
JWST has revealed exciting discoveries of galaxies that existed only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. However, due to the faintness of these distant galaxies in JWST observations, obtaining detailed information such as their environments and chemical distributions remains challenging. Extremely metal-poor galaxies in the local universe, a type of dwarf galaxies…