1. A.I.Radio Show Extended with Sir Patrick
Moore
Last Tuesday's AIRS (Astronomy Ireland Radio Show, May
22) was extended to 60 minutes and includes the interview with Sir Patrick
Moore, and his co-presenter Chris Lintott which Ben Emmett recorded at Sir
Patrick's home in Selsey, England on the occasion of the party
for the 50th anniversary of BBC's "THE SKY NIGHT" (see here www.astronomy.ie/tsan.html )
Remember to tune in EVERY Tuesday at 8pm and listen live
on the internet (or 103.2FM in the Dublin area).
If you miss the show (or want to get a copy) you can
download it, usually within an hour of the end of the show.
2. BIG BANG LECTURE
The Royal Irish Academy have sent us details of an
exciting lecture they will be holding in Dublin in association with the Irish
Times. Tickets are free and are sure to be allocated quickly so book quickly at
www.ria.ie if you can get to this Dublin
event:
Academy Times/DIAS Joint Public
Lecture
"Deciphering the Big Bang"
Nobel Laureate Dr John Mather
6:30pm on Tuesday 12th June 2007, Burke Theatre
(downstairs in the Arts Block), TCD
John Mather won the 2006
Nobel Prize for physics for his work on COBE in the early '90s. He is the senior
project scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope, which will replace the
Hubble Space Telescope in 2013 (www.jwst.nasa.gov)
Dr Mather's talk is a
history of the Universe in a nutshell, from the Big Bang to now, and on to the
future – John Mather will tell the story of how we got here, how the Universe
began with a Big Bang, how it could have produced an Earth where sentient beings
can live, and how those beings are discovering their history. Mather was Project
Scientist for NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, which measured
the spectrum of the heat radiation from the Big Bang, discovered hot and cold
spots in that radiation, and hunted for the first objects that formed after the
great explosion.
He
will explain Einstein’s biggest mistake, show how Edwin Hubble discovered the
expansion of the Universe, how the COBE mission was built, and how the COBE data
support the Big Bang theory. He will also show NASA’s plans for the next great
telescope in space, the James Webb Space Telescope. It will look even farther
back in time than the Hubble Space Telescope, and will look inside the dusty
cocoons where stars and planets are being born today.
Tickets are free, but must be booked online at -
www.ria.ie
Organiser: Academy Times/DIAS
Lecture
Title: "Deciphering
the Big Bang"
Lecture Venue:
Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College
Dublin.
Date:
Tuesday 12th June 2007
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