Q&A - The Universe Beyond Visible Light - with Jen Gupta

What can you use the accurate timing of pulsars for? Why do we have planets? Can neutrinos be used to map stellar objects? Jen Gupta answers questions following her talk.
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Jen Gupta is an astrophysicist who loves to talk about how awesome space is with anyone who will listen. She is currently based in the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth where she is the SEPnet/Ogden Physics Outreach Officer. She also occasionally works at the Winchester Science Centre as a Planetarium Presenter. In her spare time she help to organise the Winchester Science Festival.

Jen did her PhD at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester under the supervision of Professor Ian Browne. Her research looked at active galactic nuclei (AGN) – galaxies that are emitting far more energy from their centres than can be accounted for by their stars. In particular she focused on a subset of AGN called blazars.

This Q&A was filmed in the Royal Institution on 14 April 2016.

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