Hong Kong Space Museum | Lecture on 'Interstellar Home: Discovering and Deconstructing Habitable Exoplanets'

Description

As night falls and you gaze upon the starry sky, have you ever wondered if there might be another planet out there similar to Earth, or even capable of supporting life? This lecture will offer an easy-to-understand introduction to the discovery of exoplanets, and look ahead to important future space and ground-based observation projects around the world. The speaker will also present cutting-edge observation work being done at the Yunnan Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, explaining how scientists use observation data to characterize and evaluate the habitability of these distant worlds.

Speaker: Dr. Gu Shenghong (Researcher, Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Language: Mandarin

No reservation is required. Admission is free and available on a first-come, first-served basis. This lecture will not be live-streamed.