Events

Full Lunar Eclipse

There is a full lunar eclipse of the moon on Friday 14th March. The eclipse will already be well under way when it rises just after 7:45pm, so don't miss […]

April NAS Members Meeting

Milton Room, Cawthron Institute 164 Milton Street, The Wood, Nelson

Robert Rea will talk on the topic of: How Massive Can Stars Be? The most massive star yet identified is R136a1 in the Tarantula Nebula and is estimated to have […]

May Monthly NAS Meeting: Bill Rea \ Fermi Paradox

Milton Room, Cawthron Institute 164 Milton Street, The Wood, Nelson

The Fermi Paradox is named after Enrico Fermi who, in 1950, realised that technologically advanced life should have colonized the entire Milky Way Galaxy long before humans ever evolved on […]