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Our Cosmic Origins
A Hybrid Mexborough & Swinton Astronomical Society Meeting, July 9th 2026
Our Cosmic Origins
All of the chemical elements of the periodic table are produced in space. In this talk I will focus on the 40 or so elements that make up the human body, and where and how these are produced. This will involve us journeying from the big bang to the hearts of massive stars, and into the material thrown out by neutron stars colliding at appreciable fractions of the speed of light.
Our speaker Mark Norris is an observation astronomer who undertook his degree and PhD at Durham University, followed by postdoctoral research positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. Since 2015 he has been a lecturer then senior lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Lancashire.
This meeting is hybrid and is also available via Zoom as well as live in the meeting hall.
