Star Expert To Reveal Secrets Of Rosetta Mission

The Costa Blanca Astronomical Society is complete nan satellite to invited a very typical impermanent – Professor Mark McCaughrean, a starring ray successful astronomy, who will beryllium giving a fascinating nationalist talk successful El Verger connected Friday September 26.

Professor McCaughrean has spent his profession gazing heavy into nan beingness from immoderate of nan world’s apical institutions, including nan European Space Agency (ESA) wherever he served arsenic Senior Advisor for Science & Exploration. He has worked connected a postulation of missions, from nan spectacular James Webb Space Telescope to nan legendary Rosetta mission, which landed a spacecraft connected a comet for nan very first time.

Now an adjunct intelligence pinch nan prestigious Max Planck Institute successful Heidelberg, he has lived, taught, and researched crossed nan UK, nan USA, Germany, and The Netherlands, making him 1 of Europe’s best-travelled stargazers.

His sojourn to nan Costa Blanca was primitively planned past twelvemonth to coincide pinch nan 10th day of Rosetta’s daring travel to Comet 67P, but a freak DANA large wind grounded nan event. This time, nan countdown is backmost on.

His talk, titled Rosetta: to drawback a comet, promises to beryllium a cosmic treat. Professor McCaughrean will return nan assemblage down nan scenes of nan mission, from its 10-year pursuit done abstraction to its melodramatic finale erstwhile Rosetta ended its travel by joining lander Philae connected nan comet’s surface. He will besides assistance nan lid connected nan technological secrets uncovered – from nan origins of h2o successful our star strategy to tantalising clues astir the beginnings of life itself.

The speech will beryllium successful English and unfastened to anyone funny astir nan wonders of space. Best of all, it’s wholly free.

Friday September 26

Auditorium astatine nan Casa de Cultura, El Verger

Starts 19:00

No booking is required, and pinch plentifulness of parking nearby, each you request to do is bring your consciousness of wonder.