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Tag Archives: Edwin Hubble

Monthly Meeting: Friday, 15th February, 2019

The February 2019 (Jeremiah Horrocks Memorial Lecture) monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2018 – 2019 (137th) session will be held on Friday, February 15th from 19:00 to 21:00. Our guest speaker this month is Dr. Allan Chapman FRAS, whose lecture is entitled: “Islands in the Sky; Edwin Hubble, the Galaxies, and the ‘Star’ of Mt. Wilson” Dr. Chapman will talk about the impact of one of the greatest discoveries of the early 20th Century – the size of the known universe; that it was unimaginably larger than previously thought, and the implications and effects this discovery had […] Continue Reading »