NASA – The Music Video
The scientist/artists in NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio created this magnificent video to accompany a recent performance by the National Symphony Orchestra Pops of Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune.” For more […]
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February Monthly Meeting
Where: Space Place – Carter Observatory When: Wednesday 7th February 2018 at 7:30 pm Topic: Hot springs and the search for life on early Earth and Mars – Professor Kathleen Ann […]
WAS Observing Evening
When: Saturday 26th August 7:00pm, Where: Tawa College See many wonderful objects, star clusters, galaxies, dying stars and nebulae. We will be focusing on objects around the galactic centre like the […]
Royal Society of New Zealand Hudson Lecture
When: Wednesday 23rd August 6:00pm Where: Te Whare Aparangi, Royal Society of New Zealand The Hawking evaporation of black holes – Matt Visser In 1973 Stephen Hawking proved that black holes […]
Vanishing star hints at direct collapse to black hole
The rules for a stellar death seem pretty simple. If the star isn’t that massive, it burns out into a carbon-rich remnant called a white dwarf. If it’s big enough, […]