* Astronomy

Lecture: In Pursuit of Pulsars, Manchester, United Kingdom

Prof. Jocelyn Bell-Burnell DBE (Oxford University)

Lecture: an accessible introduction to pulsars (pulsating radio stars), and their amazing properties. Like lighthouses in the sky they may one day be used as navigation beacons for interstellar travel. Meanwhile they have stretched our understanding of the behaviour of matter and serve as very accurate clocks to check out Einstein's theory of relativity.

Lectures by visiting speakers for adults, followed by a short planetarium show about this month's sky. No admittance to children under the age of 11yrs.

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