2. International Speaker for Lecture & DVD:
The Billion Euro
Telescope
Astronomy Ireland welcomes an international speaker
for its May Public Lecture about a billion euro telescope, the ALMA Project in
Chile!
Dr John Richer from the University of Cambridge is the UK Project Scientist
for ALMA, and he will explain in this lecture how the facility will allow
astronomers to peer deep inside star-forming regions of galaxies, otherwise
invisible to telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope. It will enable
transformational research into the physics of the cold Universe, probe the first
stars and galaxies, and directly image the formation of planets.
ALMA - short for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array
- is an extremely important project in science and when completed it can
effectively configure its 50 individual telescopes to act as a single large
telescope 16km across! It is the biggest and most expensive ground-based
astronomical project being built at over a billion euro already.
The lecture will take place in Trinity College Dublin next Monday, May
13th, at 8pm.
To book tickets or to order DVDs, please click
HERE or call (01) 890 11
11.
2. Astrophotography Exhibition Opens
Tonight
Astronomy Ireland member and Cork Coordinator Denis Walsh
opens his exhibition called Astrophotography & Cosmotography in Beara
Dark Sky tonight, Friday, May 10th, at 9pm.
The exhibition will feature some of Denis's breathtaking shots
of the night sky, and it will take place in the Allihies Copper Mine Museum in
Beara, West Cork. All are welcome to attend. For information on the
museum's activities please visit www.acmm.ie
3. Dr Brian May in The Irish
Times
Astrophysicist and world-renowned musician was interviewed by
journalist and Astronomy Ireland member Ronan McGreevy in yesterday's Irish
Times. Dr May talked about his recent return to astronomy to complete his
doctorate thesis that he began in the 1970s before he shot to fame with Queen,
and how his love for astronomy was supported by his friend, the late Sir Patrick
Moore.
If you missed the print edition of the Irish Times yesterday,
you can read the article online HERE.