AoT: The Suns and Stars (Leiden, in English)

The next Astronomy on Tap Leiden (AoT) will take place on Monday April 13th at the Galerie Café Leidse Lente at 20:00 CEST. Join this AoT to learn about stars, from our own Sun to the distant lights that twinkle in the night sky. As always, there will be fun games with which you can test your knowledge and try to win cool science prizes!

The speakers

Andy To is a Research Fellow at the European Space Agency, where he investigates the warning signs of solar flares before they start, with the goal of improving our ability to predict flares and space weather events. His talk will focus on how humans studied the Sun's activity before the space age. How did our ancestors record unusual solar activity, and what traces has the Sun left on our world over the past hundred, thousand, or even ten thousand years? His talk will explore how the Sun influences our modern society by investigating historical observations and even natural archives such as ice cores and tree rings.

Paul Cristofari is a postdoctoral research at Leiden Observatory, where he leverages high-resolution spectroscopy to study stars of various types, with a particular focus on small stars called red dwarfs. Paul's talk will take us beyond the Sun, the one star we cannot miss, to tell us about how we study distant stars by reading the light that they emit. His talk will focus on some of the smallest stars, known as red dwarfs, which can be just as temperamental as our Sun: they too may influence life on the planets that orbit them.

Logistical information
The AoT starts at 20:00 sharp, so please arrive earlier to enter the café, save a seat, and grab a drink at the bar. The organisation uploads a recording of the talks on their YouTube channel. Galerie Café Leidse Lente is located at Haagweg 4 in Leiden. Payed parking is located at Haagweg 8.