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There's a line Flat Earthers use when criticising our basic understandings about our world that seems to win people to their way of thinking: "if space is a vacuum, why doesn't it suck all our atmosphere into space?" This gets people imagining the need for some sort of crystal dome to hold our atmosphere in. […]
Our next event at the Wai-iti International Dark Sky Park is Saturn Rising on the 27th September. The focus will be on planets and the moon. Mars will be setting in the west. Saturn will be rising in the north East, and the 5 day old moon will be in Scorpio. The moon may make […]
By studying World War I battlefields, Charles Gifford who was a teacher at Wellington College developed the theory that lunar craters were formed by impacts. At the conclusion of the war the favoured theory was the lunar craters were volcanic. Gifford used mathematics to explain how meteors gave rise to craters.
"The Final Club Dark Sky Park night gathering at the Wai-iti Dark Sky Park for 2025 will take place as an end of year celebration. (at 437/439 Wakefield- Kohatu highway, […]
The Nelson Astronomical Society is hosting a film evening at the Suter Theatre on the evening of December 3rd, with two very well rated astronomical documentaries being shown: "Messengers" and "The […]