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Alien worlds with glass rain, and a recipe for understanding the galaxy via a pint of beer! Join us for an interstellar journey exploring the weird and the wonderful throughout the galaxy. Please note that this event takes places on the first floor and is not accessible for those with impaired mobility.
Exoplanet Weather, or, how I learned to love the rainy UK
Stefan Lines
(Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Exeter)
Fed up of the Great British weather? No worries! I'll explain how we work with the UK Met Office to explore the wildest weather in the Universe before taking you on a hypothetical holiday to planets both in our solar system and trillions of miles away to discover acid clouds, experience winds stronger than a hundred hurricanes and bask in merciless glass rain.
The Galactic Bar, or, why the Milky Way is like your local pub
Jenny Hatchell
(Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics, University of Exeter)
Dr Hatchell is an observational astrophysicist from the University of Exeter. In this lighthearted but informative talk, she will hold a beer glass up to the Galaxy and demonstrate that what’s going on up there is not so different from what goes on down here.
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