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Stars are not as quiet or lonely as they may seem. Gently pulsing to the sound of their own music, they host a variety of weird and wonderful new worlds just waiting to be detected. Tonight's speakers will help you discover how we can find properties of stars from their pulsations, the other planets they may be hiding and the unique tools available to them to make these high precision measurements.
This event will take place upstairs in the Gin Parlour.
This event will take place upstairs in the Gin Parlour.
Searching for other planets in our galaxy
Professor Bill Chaplin
(Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Birmingham)
In this talk, Bill will discuss how we detect planets orbiting other stars, concentrating on the thousands of planets discovered by the NASA Kepler Mission. He will discuss the implications of these discoveries, including a growing number of planets that potentially lie in the habitable zones of their host stars
Sounding the sun and stars
Dr Guy Davies
( Research Fellow in Helioseismology and Asteroseismology)
Guy will present the science of helioseismology and asteroseismology, the study of the Sun and stars by observation of their natural resonances (the "music of the stars"). He will show how data from the NASA Kepler Mission have revolutionized our ability to study stars in this way.
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