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Home > Classes & Workshops > Take a tour of the universe with The Cosmic Tourist

Take a tour of the universe with The Cosmic Tourist

By Caroline King - May 29, 2014Posted in : Classes & Workshops, Comedy, Festival, Science and Technology

When: 1st June 2014, 2:30pm – 3:30pm

Where: Hay Festival, Dairy Meadows, Brecon Road, Hay on Wye HR3 5PJ

£: Tickets cost £7.  Tickets for this event are available via the Hay Festival website.

What is it?

The Cosmic Tourist is a Royal Society event taking place at the 2014 Hay Festival with Chris Lintott and Jon Culshaw.

We are surrounded by an astronomical zoo of familiar and curious objects, from asteroids and zodiacal dust to Alpha Centauri and the centre of the Milky Way.  Chris Lintott discusses the many marvels of the cosmos with comedian and impressionist Jon Culshaw, and takes us on a tour of the universe.

Chris Lintott was one of the authors of The Cosmic Tourist, which was long-listed for the 2013 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books.

More info: www.hayfestival.com and royalsociety.org/events/2014/05/the-cosmic-tourist

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