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23
July
DDO Astronomy Speakers Night: Mars – an Active World? (ONLINE)
Watch the recorded video: https://youtu.be/bFc1cz4P1zc
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5
June
DDO Astronomy Speakers Night: How Ancients Predicted Eclipses with Ron Macnaughton (ONLINE)
Watch the recorded video: https://youtu.be/BxdeIcc3_A4
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30
April
DDO Astronomy Speakers Night: Mars: The Next Chapter with Paul A. Delaney (ONLINE)
Watch the recorded video: https://youtu.be/E88i1p-cyHE
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6
March
DDO Astronomy Night: The Life Cycle of Massive Stars with Adaeze Ibik (ONLINE)
Watch the recorded video: https://youtu.be/XV7YRmf9b1Q
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6
February
DDO Astronomy Night: Whispers from the Cosmos with Dr. Katie Breivik (ONLINE)
Watch the recorded video: https://youtu.be/_VmSKGzusKE
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7
November
DDO Astronomy Night: Unravelling the Mysterious Fast Radio Burst with CHIME (ONLINE)
Watch the recorded video: https://youtu.be/PxfZ7omJYPY
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3
October
The Stars Belong to Everyone: Fostering Diversity and Inclusion in Astronomy (ONLINE)
Watch the recorded video: https://youtu.be/j2QAHGGel8Q
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29
August
DDO Astronomy Night: Methane on Mars: Fact, Folly, or Figment? with Dr. John Moores (ONLINE)
From the first announcement of its discovery in the atmosphere of Mars in 2003, methane has “punched above its weight” in our scientific imagination of the red planet. Because methane is quickly destroyed by the current chemistry active on Mars, it has to be supplied in the present day by some as yet unknown process. On the Earth, it is living systems that produce the abundant methane that we see in our atmosphere.
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8
August
DDO Astronomy Night: Einstein's Great Prediction: The Discovery of Gravitational Waves with Dr. Rupinder Brar (ONLINE)
Just over one hundred years ago Albert Einstein revealed the Theory of General Relativity and one of its predictions, the existence of gravitational waves. It took astronomers 100 years to first observe these mysterious waves, confirming Einstein’s theory. Now that they have, it has opened up an entirely new way to see the Universe, including objects that had not been seen before, like black holes.
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11
July
DDO Astronomy Night: Star Light, Star Bright with Dr. Rachel Ward-Maxwell (ONLINE)
Ever wonder what that bright object is in the night sky? From dying stars to shooting stars, there are many astronomical phenomena which have long inspired curiosity, fear, and awe.