t = This Saturday, March 9, 7 p.m.
R = Avonport, 475 Bluff Road
Some background on our March speaker, the youngest speaker we have
had at MAG:
On January 2, 2011, Kathryn Aurora Gray discovered a supernova in a
distant galaxy. Kathryn found it on images taken by Dave Lane of
Halifax, as part of the supernova search program that Dave and Paul,
Kathryn’s father, have been pursuing for several years. Her discovery
made headlines because, at 10 years of age, she was the youngest
person ever to make such a discovery. That June, Starmus Festival, a
5-day celebration of astronomy and space flight, commemorating the
50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight into space, brought
astronomers, other scientists, and astronauts from around the world
to the Canary Islands. Kathryn was invited.
Following the hype around Kathryn’s discovery of SN2010lt she wasÂ
invited to participate in a number of events at Starmus. The most
exciting of all was an invitation to perform the official opening of
Starmus! In this presentation Kathryn will highlight some of her
amazing adventures in the Canary Islands where she and her parents
had a chance to meet many interesting people from astronomy, space
flight, music and art backgrounds that made Starmus the amazing event it
was.