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Observing the Brightest Objects in the Universe
Thursday 05 March 2026, 19:45 - 22:00
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Contact Victoria Fawcett

 Join us for a journey through the universe's brightest wonders, a talk by Dr Vicky Fawcett

Join online if you can't meet us at the meeting room HERE


About the speaker: Victoria Fawcett

I am an astronomy Fellow at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching, Munich where I study quasars: extremely bright galaxies powered by supermassive black holes. I am part of two major astronomy collaborations: the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), an optical spectrograph on the Mayall telescope in Arizona, and the Multi-object Optical and Near-IR spectrograph (MOONS), an infrared spectrograph soon to be installed on the Very Large Telescope in Chile.

 

Outside of research, I am passionate about astronomy outreach and love talking to the public about space, having given many talks at schools, science festivals, museums, and astronomical societies.

Victoria Fawcett

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