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12th February 2024 – Solar Flares: The Most Powerful Explosions in the Solar System

Posted on October 10, 2023 by jrsee

Philippa Browning is Professor of Astrophysics in the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. She specialises in the mathematical modelling of fusion plasmas. Solar flares are dramatic explosions in the outer atmosphere of the Sun – … Continue reading →

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13th February 2023 – The End of Everything

Posted on September 27, 2022 by TerryG

Dr. Steve Barrett, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool makes a welcome return to SciBar. In March 2021 he gave us a Zoom talk entitled “The Beginning of Everything”.  Now he finishes the story in person with a … Continue reading →

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10th May 2021 (Zoom 7pm) – Just a Second/Ancient Light

Posted on January 15, 2020 by jrsee

It’s two for the price of one in May, when Dr Steve Barrett returns to give two short talks: Just a Second, in which Steve explores what can happen in one second, and explains why we need leap seconds; plus … Continue reading →

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1st March 2021 (Zoom 7pm) – The Beginning of Everything

Posted on September 21, 2019 by jrsee

Dr Steve Barrett, Department of Physics, University of Liverpool will talk about the beginning of the universe. Several of us recently attended (virtually) Kirkby SciBar and saw Steve giving a talk about Black Holes, and were very impressed by his … Continue reading →

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3rd February 2020 – Astronomy in Flatland

Posted on June 1, 2019 by jrsee

Dr Colin Steele, from the Manchester University School of Mathematics will talk to us about how a two dimensional universe – known as Flatland – would work. This is an extract from Dr Steele’s website: “In 1885, Edwin Abbott published … Continue reading →

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2nd December 2019 – The Pluto Story

Posted on May 24, 2019 by TerryG

Our discussion will be led by Professor Ian Robson, now retired but previously a Professor of Astrophysics, President of the Society for Popular Astronomy and Technology Director of the Edinburgh Royal Observatory.

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