In this talk I will discuss how we have discovered over 6000 planets in star systems beyond our own, and how we hope to determine if any of them hold life.
Mark Noris is a Senior Lecturer in Observational Astronomy at the University of Lancashire.
Mark runs Alston Observatory which is home to the Moses Holden Telescope (MHT), one of the largest teaching telescopes in the UK. He supervises BSc and MSc projects using the MHT along with teaching on the undergraduate degree programs.
Mark has used telescopes all over the world to investigate a wide range of research interests centred around studying how galaxies form and evolve.
