UPDATE: A talk by well known astrophysicist Brad Tucker has had to be cancelled.
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The Canberra-based cosmologist had been invited by the Astronomical Society of Albury Wodonga to address a gathering on Thursday, November 9, 2023.
However, Dr Tucker has been diagnosed with COVID and as a result the Astronomical Society of Albury-Wodonga has been forced to abandon the event.
Dr Tucker was to speak about the increased interest in supernovae, the explosion of stars at the end of their lives.
"Not only are they important for understanding the life of stars, but they can be used as cosmological probes to study what the universe is made of and how it is growing," Dr Tucker said.
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"This use has shown that the universe is accelerating in its expansion, the subject of the 2011 Nobel Prize, and is being caused by dark energy which will cause the end of the universe.
"I will show how our understanding of these objects has been revolutionised using new techniques, including the Kepler space telescope and Hubble, and what this means for the universe."
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