Fwd: Didcot Cafe Scientifique | Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot | Tuesday 17th September at 7.30pm
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Subject: Didcot Cafe Scientifique | Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot | Tuesday 17th September at 7.30pm
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Good Morning
This month’s Didcot Café Scientifique will take place in the auditorium at Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot on Tuesday 17th September at 7.30pm.
We are delighted to have Dr Chris Pearson, Head of Astronomy at RAL Space on Harwell Campus as our speaker and his talk is titled ‘ARIEL, EXOPLANETS and ALIEN WORLDS: Enabling planetary science across light-years’
Less than 30 years ago the only planets known to exist were those found within our own Solar System. From the first confirmed discovery in 1992 - of a pair of exotic planets orbiting around a dead star - the field of exoplanetary science has undergone nothing short of a revolution. Currently we stand at a staggering 6000 confirmed discoveries of planets outside our Solar System. What we have found is that our Universe is more diverse that we could possibly imagine, throwing up a menagerie of weird and wonderful planets such as Jupiter sized worlds orbiting ridiculously close to their parent stars, worlds made of ice, lave and even diamond, to rogue planets drifting alone in the vastness of space. With such a treasure trove of discovery, the next logical step is to characterise the properties of these systems. We are at the dawn of a new age in exoplanet research where for the first time large samples of 1000+ exoplanets are not only being detected but also characterised by analysing the composition of their atmospheres. The European Space Agency's ARIEL mission, due for launch in 2029, will become the leading facility in this characterisation process.
Dr Chris Pearson is head of Astronomy at RAL Space on the Harwell campus. His PhD was in “Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology" with Prof. Michael Rowan-Robinson at Imperial College, London and has worked on large galaxy surveys for both ground based telescopes and space borne missions. He worked for 7 years in Japan on the AKARI space telescope before moving to the UK to RAL Space to work on the SPIRE instrument on the Herschel Space Observatory where he led the team that produced all the nice images from the mission. He now works on the ARIEL mission searching for exoplanets and the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope, the largest scientific facility ever to be built.
Please note this is a ticketed event – the event is free for under 18s and £4.50 for adults. Tickets can be purchased online here or in person at the Cornerstone box office.
Please do invite any friends or colleagues along.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Kind regards,
Sarah
Didcot Café Scientifique
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