Event

A Conversation with the Stars

The Universe -- billions and billions of galaxies -- and our Milky Way, just a rather small one among them. Would you be surprised that less than 100 years ago, we still thought that the Milky Way was the only galaxy? How do we know that there are more galaxies in the Universe? And how do we know that they are all moving away from us? The story of these discoveries is closely tied to the neighbourhood of Los Angeles. It is the story of Edwin Hubble, a dedicated researcher who revolutionized our vision of the Universe.

This story will be told by Dr. Seidel, a postdoctoral research associate at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Pasadena, CA. While she is a dedicated science communicator, her current scientific work is focused on galaxy evolution, combining observations and numerical simulations, to better understand the formation of galaxy disks and the influence of dark matter. Her talk is a historical and humorous perspective of Mt. Wilson, Edwin Hubble, and our understanding of the Universe.