Astronomy talks - The gas giant planets
Tuesday 27th January 2026 from 19:00pm to 20:00pm
Princess Alexandra Auditorium
Yarm School, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, TS15 9EJ
Join Go Stargazing astronomer Dr Fred Stevenson for this one of a series of fascinating lectures in the Friarage Theatre at the Princess Alexandria Auditorium.
In this talk we describe the giant planets of the solar system – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Very different from the rocky innermost planets being composed of mostly gas, liquid and ice.
We will discuss past, present and future space missions that have shown these planets in amazing detail. We will also look at their various families of moons – Jupiter now has 95! A veritable mini solar system in its own right.
No talk about the gas giants would be complete without discussing one of the most successful space missions of all time – the Cassini probe to Saturn – extraordinary details in its rings and moons were revealed.
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