Astronomy Talks - Cities of Stars

Cities of Stars - the Milky Way and other galaxies - the building blocks of the universe.Stars swarm in huge collections known as galaxies which define the large-scale structure of our universe.

The Sun is one star amongst at least one hundred thousand million that make up our Milky Way galaxy.We will discuss how astronomers discovered the structure of own galaxy from observations of the Milky Way in the night sky and then go on to talk about the discovery of others beyond our own.We now know that there are as many galaxies ‘out there’ as there are stars within our own galaxy – that is a lot to talk about!About the LecturerOur Astronomy Talks will be brought to you by Dr Fred Stevenson.

Dr Stevenson obtained a degree in Physics with Astrophysics from the University of Leicester in 1980 followed by a PhD in Cosmology from Durham University in 1986.After further research he has spent the past twenty five years teaching adult education classes in astronomy, physics and mathematics at a variety of venues throughout Northumberland, County Durham and North Yorkshire.He has organized and taught numerous weekend courses in astronomy based in the Kielder forest park and other venues in the North Pennines.Fred is passionate about talking to the public about astronomy and has given numerous talks to astro societies and other groups.When he is not teaching Fred can be found wandering the moors and fells of the North of England and also in our Theatre bringing you these very exciting talks.