April 13th 2023

Jamie Gilmore from the University of Manchester will give a talk on “Meteorites and the Early Solar System”

Jamie is Professor of Planetary Science at the University of Manchester.  His personal research involves studying the composition of xenon gas trapped in extra-terrestrial material to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the bodies within it.

This talk will include an introduction to meteorites and some of the things that have been learned about the solar system by studying them

February 9th 2023

Dr. Steve Barret

Dr. Steve Barrett from the University of Liverpool gave two short presentations:
Just a Second – What is a second, what can happen in one second, and why do we need leap seconds?
Ancient Light – The Universe is vast and ancient. Large telescopes have imaged galaxies that are billions of light-years distant. Is it possible to capture an image of one of these very remote objects without a telescope?