Commencement Date: 16th March
Day and Time: Thursday 10 – 12 noon
Class Size: 6 – 20
Course Duration: 2 hours
Venue: Apex House, 3 Gollan Street, Ulverstone
Tutor: Martin George
Outline of Course: The talk will be about the discovery of planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. The first was discovered in 1995, and we are now confident that other ‘solar systems’ are common. However, except in a very few cases, we have never actually seen these planets! Martin will discuss how we detect them, and how we can learn about their masses and orbital periods – and even the constituents of their atmospheres!
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