Monthly Archives: October 2018

Public Star Night 16 November 2018 – Sarah Scoles – “A History of False Alien Positives”

Our speaker for this evening is Sarah Scoles, author of the book “Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence”.

Finding extraterrestrial life, especially the smart kind, would be one of the most important discoveries humans had ever made. It would tell us we weren’t alone in the vastness of space,

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Public Star Night – 26 Oct 2018 7:30 – 10:00pm – Dr Gregory Wirth – Mauna Kea: a portal to the Universe

Our speaker for this public star night will be Dr Gregory Wirth, and the topic of his talk will be the large telescopes on top of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii.

Since Galileo invented the telescope over 400 years ago, people have built ever larger instruments that probe deeper into space. 

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