Wycombe Astronomy Society (WAS)
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Wed, 20 Mar
|Amersham
Lecture - Melanie Davies - ‘The Pleiades: History myths and science’
Time & Location
20 Mar 2019, 20:00
Amersham, Barracks Hill, Amersham, Coleshill, Amersham HP7 0LN, UK
About the Event
Melanie Davies, Founder and Science Director from Creative Space Science CIC and elected Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2014, will be giving us a lecture on the history, myths and science of the Pleiades, the famous and beautiful open cluster of young stars in the constellation of Taurus.
Her lecture will be drawing on scientific papers, and will inform us of the scientific community’s current knowledge of the Pleiades including their evolution, properties and their possible fate.