INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY 2009
PUBLIC LECTURE
FRIDAY 9TH JANUARY 2009 at 7.30 pm
‘Our Magical Cosmos and How We Reveal Its Tricks ’
400 years ago an Italian
Astronomer, Galileo Galilei, used the first Astronomical
telescope to view Jupiter and Saturn and in doing so changed the course
of history and overturned hundreds of years of existing beliefs.
400 years on, during 2009, Astronomers from allover the world are
celebrating his discoveries as part of
INTERNATIONAL
YEAR OF
ASTRONOMY
2009
