Conferences
Holmes Lectures for Children: Our amazing sun
Our Place in the Universe
John H Holmes Memorial Lectures for 10-14 year olds, given by the Astrophysics Group in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Newcastle University
To reserve free places, please contact the Public Lectures office on 0191 222 6136 or e-mail: public.lectures@ncl.ac.uk
Date: 22nd January 2013
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
The Sun provides us with our energy, heat, light and other radiation invisible to to the eye. We will explore the many faces of the Sun using images obtained by astronomers. The Sun is far away, but material from the Sun strikes the Earth's atmosphere giving rise to beautiful phenomena like aurora. We will link these ideas to some experiments which demonstrate magnetism and its effects.