Schools event: Exploring the Universe - A tale of telescopes, time travel and extra-terrestrials

How telescopes can help us understand more about the origins and future of the universe?

The lecture is an exciting, interactive and inspiring free talk for school students, which builds on everyday physics to explain groundbreaking research.

This mind-expanding lecture will reveal how modern telescopes can be used by astronomers to look at the universe in ever greater detail andhow progress in technologyallowsastronomersobserve things further and further away and therefore further back in time. Howcan astronomical observations can be used to learn more about the origins and future of the universe?

The show will involve hands-on demonstrations giving students the opportunity to do some astronomy themselves using some of the most advanced telescopes in the world.

This event is the Institute of Physics Annual Schools Lecture 2009.

IMPORTANT: This event will be filmed and some of the audience will be filmed as well. For this reason we need to get parental consent from the students in the audience.

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This form needs to be signed for each pupil and needs to be brought to the Royal Institution on the day. Any pupil without parental consent will be seated in a particular section of the audience that will not be filmed.

This event is for schools, although home educators are welcome too. No under 5s will be admitted to the theatre, and all home educated children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. School groups please bring the appropriate number of adults to supervise your group. Please book all tickets online.