Starmus to rock Slovakia in 2024: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

 



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The world’s preeminent pageant combining science and music is coming to Bratislava subsequent spring.

This week, Dave brings information of an enormous announcement out of Bratislava — the Starmus Competition is coming to the capital of Slovakia, Could 12–17, 2024.

Starmus was created by the Armenian-Spanish astronomer Garik Israelyan and astronomer and Queen guitarist Brian Could as every week by which anybody might hearken to the ideas of a number of the biggest minds on the planet and in addition hearken to some nice rock ‘n’ roll. Now in its seventh version, the gathering has change into an all-star affair of science and music, with talks from a number of the world’s main researchers (together with a number of Nobel laureates) and performances from legendary musicians.

The main focus of this 12 months’s Starmus is on one planet specifically: our personal, Earth. Audio system at subsequent spring’s Starmus embrace astronomers and physicists like Kip Thorne and Jill Tarter, in addition to Earth science consultants like Katherine Hayhoe, one of many world’s main consultants on local weather change; famend oceanographer Sylvia Earle; and primatologist Jane Goodall.

It’ll additionally function an astrophotography faculty organized by former Astronomy Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich and that includes the instruction of the world-renowned imagers Damian A. Peach, Chris Schur and Martin Ratcliffe.

For extra on the Starmus lineup, you may check out the announcement here, and browse Dave’s account of this year’s Starmus in Yerevan, Armenia, here.

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