2022, December 9: Early Birds, Venus And Mercury, Bright Planet Exhibition
Named soon after Hades, the Greek god of the underworld, it is a forbidding place worthy of its name. Consisting of deep trenches and troughs, it extends 11km (six.8 miles) under the surface of the world’s oceans. Cumulatively they account for an area of seabed equivalent to the size of Australia. On that evening, the sun, Earth and Jupiter will line up, producing the gas giant the closest it’s been to our planet in nearly 60 years. It will be so vibrant and close to that it can be noticed with the naked eye — even in the light-polluted heavens...