Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Join us for a conversation with Dr Emma Chapman, author of First Light, which uses up-to-the-minute research to describe a previously dark time in our universe's history - when the first stars were born, 13 billion years ago. She’ll tell stories of those early stars, hundreds of times the size of our Sun, and a million times brighter. These lonely giants lived fast and died young, in powerful explosions that seeded the universe with the elements we make us.
About the speaker
Dr Emma Chapman is a Royal Society research fellow and fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, based at Imperial College London. She is a leading researcher in search of the first stars in our universe, and is involved in the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) in the Netherlands and the forthcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in Australia, a telescope that will eventually consist of a million antennas pointing skywards in the desert. Emma received the 2018 Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship, and an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship.
Join us for a conversation with Dr Emma Chapman, author of First Light, which uses up-to-the-minute research to describe a previously dark time in our universe's history - when the first stars were born, 13 billion years ago. She’ll tell stories of those early stars, hundreds of times the size of our Sun, and a million times brighter. These lonely giants lived fast and died young, in powerful explosions that seeded the universe with the elements we make us.
About the speaker
Dr Emma Chapman is a Royal Society research fellow and fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, based at Imperial College London. She is a leading researcher in search of the first stars in our universe, and is involved in the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) in the Netherlands and the forthcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in Australia, a telescope that will eventually consist of a million antennas pointing skywards in the desert. Emma received the 2018 Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship, and an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship.
