Astronomy And Astrophysics
Status: Active - Open to new members
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Venue: Private or various locations. Contact the leader for details
Inactive: April, May, June, July,August.
Update 2026-2027
Important!. There are sufficient interested students for Zoom sessions. Please email me about dates and times. I travel abroad a lot, so they will not be every week. If you have registered with a recognisable email address at the Priory u3a group open day on Sept.7th., or have already emailed me, I will email you info and a link to Zoom Session dates. First one: Monday Oct.12 th., 4 pm. My email address is cjbaddiley@gmail.com, mobile 07956449233, landline 01886880047.
The full course videos of PowerPoint slides can be streamed by anyone, anytime, from the u3a website. For those registering, interactive Zoom sessions are offered every week about the latest research news, including news videos of launches etc., and course queries. The day/time is selected by agreement, BUT it only runs if I get enough sustainable interest. The course topics cover historical astronomy, the solar system, planetary physics, how we discover planets around other stars and their atmospheres, 5000 so far, the search for life elsewhere, why the Earth is special, Atomic physics, Particle physics, the quantum world, the trillions of galaxies, Relativity and Cosmology. It includes models of the universe and our existence within it. Those who attend regularly are often keen to do so again. Many find that they look at our universe in a completely new way..
If anyone is interested who hasn’t attended, please look at the course and contact me.
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