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Friends of RAS (only) Lecture, The Sun up close: results from the Solar Orbiter mission

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Solar Orbiter is a mission to explore the nearest star, our Sun. Launched in February 2020
it carries a complex payload of ten scientific instruments on an orbit that takes it closer to
the Sun than Mercury. From there we can study the Sun's surface and atmosphere in
unprecedented

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Thursday, 12 October, 2023 - 13:00
The Royal Astronomical Society,Burlington House
Artist's impression of the Solar Orbiter spacecraft
Friends of RAS (only) Lecture, DART- a great success for NASA's first planetary defence mission.

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On 26 September 2022, the NASA DART probe successfully impacted the Dimorphos asteroid, the smallest component of the binary asteroid system Didymos. The aim of the mission was to measure the effect of the impact on the orbit of Dimorphos, to test the efficiency of the kinetic

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Black holes possess gravitational fields so strong that not even light can escape their event horizons, rendering them 'invisible'. For more than a century, black holes were assumed to exist, yet their direct observational confirmation remained elusive. The notion of imaging a

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