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Professor Lockwood is followed by speakers Professor Pilar Ruiz Lapuente and Dr Or Graur, whose talks focus on Type Ia supernovae. 🎆 Next up, Royal Astronomical Society award winner Professor Chiaki Kobayashi delivers the George Darwin Lecture 'The origin of Elements in the Universe'. 🪐 ✨ An internationally-recognised leader in the field of chemical evolution of galaxies, Professor Kobayashi is also a pioneer in the study of the origin of the elements. Her talk closes out this month's A&G Highlights meeting in style 👏 🥳

The November A&G meeting is kicked off by Royal Astronomical Society President Mike Lockwood. 🚀 He welcomes the audience with several news items: - The signing of the 999-year lease at RAS HQ: https://lnkd.in/dqhckN-R - Nominations for the Caroline Herschel Medal: https://lnkd.in/eHgnwPAv - The deadline for RAS Fellowship applications: https://lnkd.in/gTeqP46c #RAS #Highlights #Supernovae

November's A&G Highlights meeting is coming up shortly at Burlington House. Among the speakers will be Royal Astronomical Society 2024 award winner Professor Chiaki Kobayashi, of the University of Hertfordshire. She will be giving the George Darwin Lecture at 16:55 GMT titled 'The origin of Elements in the Universe'. 🪐 ✨ If you can't attend in person, Fellows can still join online here: https://lnkd.in/ecriJbzA

Today's Royal Astronomical Society Specialist Discussion meeting on type Ia supernovae is under way 💫 💥 James Munday, of the University of Warwick, is currently speaking about the search for type Ia progenitors in our galactic neighbourhood. November's A&G Highlights meeting will follow the SDM later this afternoon.

Reminder that we have a Specialist Discussion meeting and the A&G Highlights meeting taking place tomorrow. Type Ia supernovae, the Universe's most spectacular fireworks, will be the focus. ⏰ SDM: 10:30 - 15:35 GMT / A&G: 16:00 - 18:00 GMT 📅 Friday 8 November 📍SDM - RAS / A&G - Geological Society For more information and details on how to book FREE tickets either in-person or online, visit: SDM - https://lnkd.in/ePrgAAAM A&G - https://lnkd.in/ecriJbzA

Some exciting news! The #DarkSkies All-Party Parliamentary Group has been formally re-established and its inaugural meeting took place this afternoon, bringing together MPs and peers who want to tackle light pollution. Over the Parliament the Royal Astronomical Society, including Dr Robert Massey and Marieta Valdivia Lefort, will be helping them with that, whether that's in improving access to the night sky or working with our partners to help prevent the damage too much light can do to biodiversity and human health.

📅 Date for the diary 📅 This year's John Brown Memorial Lecture, in honour of the late Astronomer Royal for Scotland and past winner of an RAS Gold Medal, will take place on Wednesday 4 December 2024. It will see visual artist Ione Parkin discuss the origins, development and ongoing progress of the Creativity and Curiosity Art-Astronomy project. ⏰ 17:30 - 19:00 GMT 📍 Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, London Book a FREE ticket, either in-person or online, at: https://lnkd.in/e2rQaquc

What better way to mark #BonfireNight than a talk about the Universe's most spectacular fireworks? 🔥 🎆 That's right, Type Ia supernovae - which play a key role in many areas of astrophysics - will be the focus of the next Royal Astronomical Society Specialist Discussion meeting at Burlington House in London on Friday. Book either a Fellows or non-Fellows ticket at: https://lnkd.in/ePrgAAAM

Our initial response to yesterday's #Budget is below... Read what else the Royal Astronomical Society has to say at: https://lnkd.in/eUftq6HJ

📣 Announcement 📣 We're delighted to reveal that we have officially signed a 999-year lease on our London headquarters, having agreed a deal with the Government earlier this year to transfer the building's ownership. Read more about what it means here: https://lnkd.in/dqhckN-R