Promoting Space Exploration and Astronomy through online lecture meetings and the bi-monthly CAPCOM Magazine. We have regular online meetings via Zoom. Meetings feature an expert speaker with a spaceflight or astronomical talk. Our regularly updated Speaker Programme can be found here: Speaker Programme. We also have a free weekly Newsletter “GoSpaceWatch Weekly”. Sign up for this Here.
Next GoSpaceWatch Online Lecture: “An Experimental Flying Machine” by Ben Evans. Wed 23rd June at 19:30 BST.
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A combination of simulations and observations indicates that galaxies like the Large Magellanic Cloud control when punier dwarfs plunge into large galaxies. The post Astronomers Look into the Past of Local Dwarf Galaxies appeared first on Sky & Telescope.