Wednesday 29th May 2013. Society secretary Dominic Curran met Dr Rhaana Starling from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester after she presented a short lecture at the National Space centre on ‘Hunting for Gamma Ray Bursts’. Dr Starling uses the SWIFT satellite to search the universe for cosmic explosions and gamma ray bursts. These originate outside the Milky Way and are believed to consist of a narrow beam in intense radiation released during a Supernova, as a rapidly rotating, high-mass star collapses to form a neutron star, a quark star or a black hole.
Dominic Meets Dr Rhaana Starling
