Your Universe 6th, 7th, 8th March 2014

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Date(s) - 06/03/2014 - 08/03/2014
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University College London

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  • Target Audience: General Public
  • Accessibility: Yes
  • Food & Drink: No
  • Terrain: No Problems

PLAY GOD by building the Universe from the big bang to our days, along our 14 metre long time line.

SN2014J was discovered at ULO on 2014 Jan 21; this colour image was obtained on the night of Jan 23/24
SN2014J was discovered at ULO on 2014 Jan 21; this colour image was obtained on the night of Jan 23/24

Learn about how stars are born, live and die in The lives of stars and how we can trace their lives in the clever HR diagram.

Admire the MAGIC PLANET, a spherical projection able to reproduce any planet or star with all its motions, colours and landscapes.

Identify tiny images of galaxies and witness the expansion of the Universe in our Cosmology exhibit.

Find out how the rainbow can tell us so much about the Universe and use our portable spectroscopes to identify the chemistry of light in Rainbows, atoms and stars.

Learn how despite the difficulties of detecting planets around other stars, we have now evidence for thousands of extrasolar planets.

Attend our popular LECTURES in the majestic Gustave Tuck lecture theatre

Use our special TELESCOPES to look at the sun and the stars (weather permitting).

WEEKDAYS DAYTIME: PRE-BOOKED SCHOOL GROUPS: PRIMARY Years 5 AND 6 only 11:00h – 13:00h; SECONDARY 15:00h – 17:00
WEEKDAYS EVENINGS FOR GENERAL PUBLIC: Lectures and telescope sessions (weather permitting)

SATURDAY: 14:00h – 18:00h SCHOOLS AND GENERAL PUBLIC

PUBLIC LECTURES

FOR SCHOOL BOOKINGS and GENERAL INFORMATION please contact:

Dr Farahjabeen Islam (fislam(AT)star.ucl.ac.uk, mobile 07789 515418)

Dr Francisco Diego (fd(AT)star.ucl.ac.uk, mobile: 07974 917878)

For further information please visit website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/youruniverse/