Cosmic Messengers - Professor Tim O'Brien
Wednesday 12th January 2022 from 18:30pm to 20:00pm
University Place - Manchester
176 Oxford Road, Manchester, Lancashire, M13 9PL
Join the talented and well-respected science communicator Professor Tim O’Brien for his fantastic talk on Cosmis Messengers as part of the Lepton Photon Symposium.
In this talk, Tim will discuss the new things we can learn about the universe from studying cosmic messengers, which can be in the form of electromagnetic radiation, including visible light and radio waves and collected by telescopes on the ground in orbit.
Tim O’Brien is Professor of Astrophysics in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at The University of Manchester and an Associate Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. He is also the science co-curator for the Bluedot Festival.
Please note that this has already taken place on 12/01/2022
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Event darkness
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University Place - Manchester is estimated to have light pollution levels similar to an urban location based on the latest data from the VIIRS satellite.
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The above demonstrates the estimated effect of light pollution - graphics created using Stellarium.
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