Supernovae, Advanced Telescopes and the Search for Dark Energy
Mon 07 Jul
|Teaching and Learning Centre
PUBLIC ASTRONOMY TALK with Professor Isobel Hook. Part of the Royal Astronomical Society's 'National Astronomy Meeting 2025'.
Time & Location
07 Jul 2025, 19:30 – 21:00
Teaching and Learning Centre , Durham University, South Rd, Durham, DH1 3LS
About the event
With access to arts activities including the Moon Palace from 6pm.
Learn more about the expansion of the universe, exploding stars, and the mysterious concept of dark energy, with Professor Isobel Hook.
Her research focuses on using distant supernovae for cosmology, specifically to measure the effects of dark energy in the universe. She is also involved in major telescope projects, including ESA's Euclid mission, the future Rubin Observatory and its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST), and the European Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).
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The Royal Astronomical Society is proud to present the next National Astronomy Meeting, NAM2025, at Durham University from Monday 7th July to Friday 11th July, 2025. It is organised in conjunction with Durham University's Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, the Centre for Advanced Instrumentation, the Institute for Computational Cosmology, the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, and the Department of Mathematical…