The First Stars

Eddington once famously said that a physicist on a cloud-bound planet could predict that there are stars. The first series of lectures will be devoted to fundamental questions that have simple answers. What is a star? What is a galaxy? All devolves around knowing their masses. Why should a star like the sun weigh in at two billion trillion trillion tonnes? No more, no less. And all other stars, countless in number, are between a tenth of a hundred times the mass of the sun.
This leads us into a description of the first stars in the universe.

This is a free public lecture by Joseph Silk, Gresham Professor of Astronomy.

There is no need to book in advance for this lecture. It runs on a first come first served basis.