About this Event
Welcome to ''The Extremely Large Telescope: The Biggest Eye on the Sky'' event!
Date: Tue Apr 30 2024
Time: 18:30 GMT+0100 (British Summer Time)
Location: University of Central Lancashire, Darwin Lecture Theatre
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is the world’s most ambitious ground-based optical-infrared astronomical facility. When it achieves first light in 2028 the sensitivity and spatial resolution provided by its 39m diameter primary mirror will dwarf those of existing facilities. In this talk Ruben Sanchez-Janssen will provide an update on the construction of the ELT and its innovative instrumentation suite and will highlight some of the key science cases that will make this facility truly transformational—from searches of biomarkers in nearby exoplanets to detailed spectroscopy of individual stars in the Galaxy and beyond, to characterisation of the most distant galaxies at the edge of the observable Universe.
Ruben Sanchez-Janssen is an Astronomer at STFC’s UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UKATC). He is Principal Investigator for the UK ELT Instrumentation Programme and Project Scientist for MOSAIC, the multi-object spectrograph for the ELT.
Refreshments will be served at 6:00pm.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of Central Lancashire, Darwin Lecture Theatre., Fylde Road, Preston, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
