{"id":4333,"date":"2025-02-18T11:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=4333"},"modified":"2025-02-18T11:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:32:14","slug":"next-meeting-of-the-abergavenny-astronomy-society-monday-24th-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/?p=4333","title":{"rendered":"Next meeting of the Abergavenny Astronomy Society, Monday 24th February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The next meeting of the Society will be in the Hen and Chickens, Abergavenny on Monday 24th February at 7:30 pm.  In this meeting Nick Busby will present on the subject of &#8220;Dark Matter&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dark matter is one of those enigmas in astronomy; there is plenty of evidence it exists, in fact if it doesn&#8217;t exist we need to come up with a bunch of other explanations for some real observational anomalies.  The trouble is nobody knows what it is, yes of course there are plenty of theories and also alternative ideas &#8211; but none have a scrap of physical evidence to support them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this talk we will look into why dark matter has been invoked in the first place, the evidence it exists and some of the alternatives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next meeting of the Society will be in the Hen and Chickens, Abergavenny on Monday 24th February at 7:30 pm. In this meeting Nick Busby will present on the subject of &#8220;Dark Matter&#8221;. Dark matter is one of those enigmas in astronomy; there is plenty of evidence it exists, in fact if it doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4334,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4333\/revisions\/4334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abergavennyas.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}