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Live today - Lecture, Conway Hall, Wednesday, 11 Nov 2026 - 19:00

Our Sun, Our Star

Professor Chris Lintott

Professor Chris Lintott

Astronomy
An artist's impression of the Sun, depicted as a glowing, bright orange and yellow sphere covered in turbulent solar flares and surrounded by an intense, fiery corona radiating into space
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Our Astronomical Future
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The Sun makes life on Earth possible. It is special to us, but it is also just another one of the Milky Way’s hundred billion stars.

This lecture considers what the Sun can teach us about its stellar brethren, from studies of its ever-changing surface to understanding its interior via astro-seismology, the study of star quakes. We’ll also see how a better understanding of our star is crucial in our search for life out there amongst the stars.

Professor Chris Lintott

Professor Chris Lintott

Gresham Professor of Astronomy

Professor Chris Lintott is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, and a Research Fellow at New College.

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Event information

Date: Wednesday, 11 Nov 2026

Time: 19:00

Type: Lecture

Location: Holborn

Venue: Conway Hall

Topics: Astronomy Science Physics