Lecture, Conway Hall, Wednesday, 5 May 2027 - 19:00

Cosmic Collisions

Digital art of a large asteroid colliding with Earth, causing a fiery explosion that rips open the planet's crust amidst a debris field in deep space

Across more than thirteen billion years of cosmic history, interacting galaxies act out a glorious ballet. On these timescales, these vast systems interact and influence each other.

Using beautiful and dramatic images from space telescopes, and new results from the cartographic satellite Gaia, we see how the history of the Milky Way and its cousins has been shaped by often violent collisions with its neighbours.

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.

Having been educated at Magdalene...

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