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SUMMARY:Dr Robin Catchpole - Are We Star Dust or Nuclear Waste?
DESCRIPTION:Everything around us\, apart from hydrogen and helium\, was made inside stars. The Earth and Sun contain elements made in generations of stars that were born and died before the birth of our Sun and planets. The story of the birth and death of stars is also the story of the battle of matter against the force of gravity. In this talk we will see where elements were made and show how gravity always wins\, as stars die\, with either a whimper or a bang. \nRobin works as an astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy\, Cambridge\, having retired as Senior Astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich in July 2004. He joined the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) from Bryanston School in 1962. After obtaining a BSc at University College London\, he was posted to the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope\, S Africa (now known as the South African Astronomical Observatory) and spent the next 24 years\, working first at the Radcliffe Observatory in Pretoria and then at the SAAO in Cape Town. \nFollowing his doctorate at the University of Cape Town on The Properties of the SC Stars and the Chemical Composition of UY Cen\, under the supervision of Prof. Brian Warner\, in 1991 he returned to the RGO in Cambridge\, until it closed in 1998\, when he moved to Greenwich as Senior Astronomer. He has authored and co-authored over 120 research papers and articles and used a number of telescopes around the world including the Hubble Space Telescope. Research interests include the composition of stars\, exploding stars\, the structure of our Galaxy and galaxies with black holes at their centres. His current research interest is in the structure of the Bulge of our Milky Way Galaxy\, as shown by Mira variables.
URL:https://www.cambsgeology.org/event/dr-robin-catchpole-are-we-star-dust-or-nuclear-waste
LOCATION:St Andrew’s Centre\, School Hill\, Histon\, CB24 9JE
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