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The image is a cover slide for a lecture to Liverpool Astronomical Society on 21st February 2025 by Dr. Steve Barrett of the University of Liverpool entitled "Cosmic Rays". The background is a picture of the Earth in space, with cosmic rays entering its atmosphere. The cosmic rays appear as thin streaks of light in the very upper atmosphere which expand into narrow, feathery cones of fainter particles as they get closer to the surface of the planet. Overlaid in the bottom right is a multicoloured 4x5 grid which reads left-to-right, from top-to-bottom: STAR WARS HAIL RAIN RAYS to the left of the word RAYS, outside of the grid and above the backdrop of the Earth is the word COSMIC.

Monthly Meeting: Dr. Steve Barrett – “Cosmic Rays”

The February 2025 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2024-2025 session will be held on Friday, February 21st from 19:00 to 21:20. About This Meeting Please note that […] Continue Reading »

Monthly Meeting: Dr. Steve Barrett – “The Beginning of Everything”

The November 2022 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2022-2023 session will be held on Friday, November 18th from 19:00 to 21:00. Members of the public are welcome […] Continue Reading »
An image of a mysterious, black void surrounded by a white ring, perhaps an event horizon? Innumerable streamers are coming from the surface of the ring, like electricity. There is no scale given, so we could br seeing anthing from a proton to a super-massive black hole. The image is energetic! It says "The End of Everything" : "The fate of the Earth, the Sun, …and the Universe"

Monthly Meeting: Dr. Steve Barrett – “The End of Everything”

The November 2023 monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for the 2023-2024 session will be held on Friday, November 17th from 19:00 to 21:00. Members of the public are welcome […] Continue Reading »

Monthly Meeting: Friday 21st October, 2016

The October 2016 (William Lassell Memorial Lecture) monthly meeting of Liverpool Astronomical Society for session 2016-17, will take place on Friday, October 21st 2016 from 7pm. Our guest speaker this month […] Continue Reading »

Talk: Galactic Archaeology (The 2015 John Porter Memorial Lecture)

The history of computer simulations of galaxies like our own Milky Way is dotted with remarkable successes, but an even greater number of impressive failures. This inability to make a […] Continue Reading »