Lecture: 'The Latest Discoveries in Space Changing Our Lives (2019)'

Astronomical discoveries continue, and 2018 was no exception. With the astrophysicist Sergey Popov, we’ll discuss the most significant and promising findings in space and how they affect our lives. This year, we received new data from the Gaia satellite, which measures distances to stars, as well as the final results from the Planck satellite—now among the most important datasets in cosmology. The TESS satellite was launched to search for exoplanets, and the first results didn’t take long to arrive. The LIGO and VIRGO gravitational-wave detectors reported four more black hole mergers. In 2019, we expect these detectors to operate with a new, higher sensitivity; CHEOPS will join the TESS mission; and in our country we’re waiting for the launch of the Spectrum-Röntgen-Gamma satellite—the most advanced X-ray observatory in the last two decades. Every space discovery has a significant impact on our lives, and this year will certainly become an important page in the history of astronomy. You can learn all of this in an informative scientific lecture on astrophysics. Sergey Popov is a well-known Russian astrophysicist, science communicator, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, and a leading researcher at the P. K. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute.