When Worlds Collide: Inauguration of the Munich Center for Geoastronomy

Session

Keynote Talk

Not scheduled

A 140 (LMU Main Building (Hauptgebäude))

17. Keynote: To See a World in a Point of Light: The Past, Present, and Future of Exoplanet Detection

Prof. Joshua Winn (Princeton University, U.S.A)

A distant star appears as a single point of light - yet hidden within that light can be the signatures of an entire planetary system, if you know how to look. Astronomers have found thousands of planets by measuring tiny shifts, dips, and blips in the light from distant stars, using techniques that range from simple geometry and optics to Einstein’s general theory of relativity. This lecture...