Live Kavali Foundation Google Hangout:the Hunt for Distant Galaxies

Hangout address: http://www.kavlifoundation.org/science-spotlights/spotlight-live-hunt-space-warps

Want to join the hunt for new galaxies? On June 5, 2:00 to 2:30 p.m. PDT (21:00 to 21:30 UTC), a team of astronomers will share how you can help them find faint and distant galaxies by joining a search they’re calling “Space Warps.” The astronomers will discuss a strange phenomenon in the cosmos that actually makes it possible for us to see a galaxy far away and otherwise hidden by clusters of galaxies in front of them. They will also answer your questions about the ongoing search for distant galaxies, what this reveals about the cosmos, and how astronomers are beginning to fill out our picture of the universe.

The participants:

* Anupreeta More is a co-Principal Investigator of Space Warps (http://www.spacewarps.org) and a postdoctoral fellow at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo.

* Philip Marshall is a researcher at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University and SLAC.

* Arfon Smith is Director of Citizen Science at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and Technical Lead of Zooniverse (http://www.zooniverse.org).

Questions can be submitted before or during the webcast. Email questions to info@kavlifoundation.org or send a message on Twitter with the hashtag #KavliAstro.

Contact:
James Cohen
Director of Communications
+1 805-278-7495
cohen@kavlifoundation.org

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