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November 2022 Didcot Cafe Scientifique, Cornerstone Arts Centre – Professor Chris Lintott, Astronomy 2022 – the big news from the cosmic year.
15th November 2022 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Tuesday 15th November 2022
The Auditorium at Cornerstone Arts Centre, 7 pm for a 7.30 pm start.
Tickets are available to buy online here or in person from the Cornerstone box office (Adults £3.50/18s and under free)
suitable for GSCE/Age 15+ upwards
Astronomy 2022 – the big news from the cosmic year.
With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomy’s newest space telescope, it’s been a spectacular year in space. With missions to Mars, asteroid deflection and the brightest (and nearest) high energy explosion ever seen, as well as new news about black holes and a cornucopia of new planets, there’s plenty to talk about in this review of the year.
Chris Lintott is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford, where he is also a research fellow at New College, working on topics from galaxy evolution, transient detection and machine learning. As Principal Investigator of the Zooniverse, he leads a team who run the world’s most successful citizen science projects, allowing more than a million people to discover planets, transcribe ancient papyri or explore the Serengeti. A passionate advocate of the public understanding of science, he is best known as co-presenter of the BBC’s long running Sky at Night program. His book, ‘The Crowd and the Cosmos’, is now available from Oxford University Press.
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