Ordinary Meeting Videos

Cosmology with Galaxy Shapes

12th December 2014 - Benjamin Joachimi, University College London  

Reconnection and turbulence: thinking in pictures

The James Dungey Lecture, given at the Ordinary Meeting of the RAS held on 12 December 2014 by Prof. Sandra Chapman (University of Warwick) Both reconnection and turbulence are ubiquitous in astrophysical fields and flows. They are key mechanisms…

Planck results and Jodrell Bank's contribution

Talk at the Ordinary Meeting of the RAS held on 11 April 2014 by Prof. Richard Davis (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester) The Planck satellite has provided exquisite measurements of the cosmic microwave background. In…

Cometary delivery of volatiles to the Moon: what can we learn in the laboratory?

Talk at the Ordinary Meeting of the RAS held on 11 April 2014 by Prof. Mark Burchell (University of Kent)

Studying hard X-rays from solar flares with the FOXSI rocket

Talk at the Ordinary Meeting of the RAS held on 14 February 2014 by Dr Lindsay Glesener (University of California, Berkeley)

John Wilkins, 400 years on

Bishop John Wilkins, visionary of mechanical space travel and pioneer of popular astronomy: four hundred years on Talk given at the Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society on 10 January 2014 by Dr Allan Chapman (University of Oxford)

Intradecadal variations in the length of day

Talk at the Ordinary Meeting of the RAS held on 10 January 2014 by Prof. Richard Holme (University of Liverpool) Geophysical changes in the Earth's crust cause the length of the day to vary slightly over time. How can we measure this effect, and…

Icy collisions: the art of planet building beyond the snow line

Talk at the Ordinary Meeting of the RAS held on 10 January 2014 by Dr Helen Fraser (Open University) The process of planet formation requires collisions between small dust grains, which stick together to form larger objects such as comets and…