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The Orion Nebula; 1500 light years away |
One of the Universe's estimated 20 trillion galaxies. |
ASTRONOMY GROUP
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The Orion Nebula; 1500 light years away |
One of the Universe's estimated 20 trillion galaxies. |
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Amazing picture taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of the 800 metre Victoria crater on the Red Planet. |
The following pictures are all to illustrate the size and distances of space as we see it.
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| Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Pluto. | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth.... |
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| Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth..... | Arcturus, Pollux, Sirius, Sun.... |
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| Betelgeuse, Antares, Aldebaran, Rigel, Arcturus, Pollux, Sirius, Sun.... |
This is a Hubble telescope ultra deep field, infrared view of countless "entire" galaxies, billions of light years away. |
The "Themes" of previous meetings of the Astronomy Group are all listed below. Click on the date to read the handouts produced by Henk at the time.
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Introduction
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Radiation,
Distances |
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The
Solar System |
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Stars |
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The
Big Bang |
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Meteorites,
Comets |
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Star
gazing history |
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The
Moon |
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Race
to the Moon |
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Copernicus,
Galileď etc. |
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Venus
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The
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The
Solar system’s ‘Gas Giants’ |
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NASA |
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‘Bad
Astronomy’ |
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Miscellaneous |
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Fifty
years since Sputnik |
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‘The
seven wonders of the Universe’ |
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Review
2007 – Outlook 2008 |
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Recent
News |
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Astronomical
Jubilees |
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‘Miscellanastronomy’ |
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The
Large Hadron Collider |
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Telescopes |
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Galaxies |
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Turn of the year 2008/'09 |
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| 27-03-09 | The Kepler Mission |
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Space Telescopes / Spectroscopy |
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Various news items |
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The Moon |
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The Sun |
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| 27-10-09 | Robotic Explorers |
| 22-01-10 | Life on Mars? |
| 26-02-10 | Great Discoveries |
| 26-03-10 | Wonders of the Universe 1 - 3 |
| 28-05-10 | The International space station |
| 26-06-10 | Light Polution |
Click Here for a short list of books, magazines and web sites.
Click Here for "Sunset from Space"
Click Here for The Sky at Night, Royal Mail Stamps
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