You may have seen in the news last month that we had to keep our heads down as a piece of ancient Russian space junk was going to fall back to Earth with most of the world in the possible landing zone, including us. It finally plummeted harmlessly into the Indian Ocean on 10th May. Phew! This was one of the 35,000 bits of debris bigger than 10cm orbiting the Earth waiting to eventually…
Our Next Meeting: 19, June- Summercourt
Image Credit: Frank Johns The main talk of the evening will be given by Dr Nigel Price – Planetary Nebulae… how do they form and what can they tell us about their progenitors? This talk will consider the origin and evidence for the different ways in which planetary nebulae form and how that can explain their fantastic morphologies. I hope to find a few colourful examples to whet our visual appetites as well an…