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Outer Space: To Infinity and Beyond

Ground floor venue with accessible toilets.
Wed 21 May Doors 7:00 pm
Event 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Durham Amateur Rowing Club, Green Lane,
Durham DH1 3JU
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Come along to learn all about space! How do we learn to understand the formation of galaxies? 

Dark energy and the expansion of the Universe

Dr Sownak Bose (Associate Professor & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow)
Over a century ago, there was the groundbreaking realisation that the Universe is expanding. At the turn of the millennium, another astounding discovery was made: that this expansion is accelerating, powered by a so-called "dark energy", whose origin continues to perplex astronomers. The story has become even more baffling with new measurements made in the past year - and they may even upend the existing cosmological paradigm completely. I will discuss the history of dark energy, how we measure the growth of the Universe, and what our latest findings imply for the eventual fate of our cosmos.
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Small spectrographs and large telescopes

Dr Rob Harris (Assistant Professor)
Hi, I’m Rob! My research work takes the photonic technologies that bring broadband to your home and tries to integrate them into the largest telescopes in the world. In this talk I’ll tell you about my trip to the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona with a mini spectrograph I’d built. The spectrograph sits on the back of a telescope and splits light into its component wavelengths or colours, allowing us to fingerprint elements and molecules in space. Using the spectrograph, we prepared the way for a new instrument for the telescope, found new stars and helped constrain searches for black holes. Overall not too shabby for a quick May trip to Arizona.
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