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Win. Science Ctr - Planets and Pulsations
Wednesday 10 Jun 2015
00:00 to 23:55
Winchester Science Centre and Planetarium, Telegraph Way, Off Alresford Road, Winchester, SO21 1HX
England

Come along to the Wednesday Space Lecture on "Planets and Pulsations: The New Keplerian Revolution" at 6.30pm at the Winchester Science Centre. There is no host for this event.

TICKET PRICES FOR THIS TALK ARE £10 PER PERSON /£8 FOR CONCESSIONS. TICKETS FOR THIS AND OTHER SHOWS AT THE SCIENCE CENTRE CAN ALSO BE PURCHASED ON LINE AT THE WEB ADDRESS BELOW:

www.winchestersciencecentre.org/visitor-information/whats-on/

These Wednesday Space Lectures are aimed at a level a little above most popular science lectures, so come prepared to exercise your brain and learn the science behind the headlines. The speakers are chosen from the best academic speakers in the UK, with a talent for explaining difficult concepts and the knowledge to give the very latest news from the research community.
Although the primary audience is adults, older children are also welcome to attend.

Lecturer: Prof Don Kurtz, University of Central Lancashire
Planets and Pulsations: The New Keplerian Revolution

One of the biggest questions humans can ask is, "Are we alone?" Does Earth harbour the only life in the universe? Everyone has an opinion on this question, but as scientists, we want to know.

A first step is to find other planets like the Earth, planets with rocky surfaces and liquid water where conditions are similar to home. The Kepler Space Mission has done this. With the discovery of over 4600 planets orbiting other stars Kepler has revolutionised our view. It has found entire solar systems orbiting other stars and it has even found planets orbiting double stars: Yes, Luke Skywalker's fictional home planet Tatooine really does exist out there.

The Kepler mission measured the brightnesses of nearly 200,000 stars for four years, giving us a view of the stars 100 times more precise than is possible from the ground. From this a jewel box exotic stars have been discovered, and astrophysics that used to be purely theoretical is now also observational. This talk introduces the concepts of asteroseismology and shows a selection of exciting results from the Kepler mission.

Prof Don Kurtz travelled for his first postdoctoral position and for adventure to the University of Cape Town in South Africa, where it was his intention to spend 1 year. Twenty-five years later he left Cape Town as Professor of Astrophysics to the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées in France and then on to the University of Central Lancashire, where he has now worked for 15 years.

Don is a past-president of the Commission on Variable Stars of the International Astronomical Union, serves on many international scientific boards and observes with some of the largest telescopes in the world. He is an enthusiastic and popular public speaker and has lectured on all continents except Antarctica (and he is working on that).

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