As the month-long lockdown was announced in Sydney, Rami Mandow put out a tweet offering to chat about space to the young people stuck at home. So we reached out and asked whether he'd be interested in also chatting to the young at heart!

Join us for a conversation with Rami, where he will take us for an adventure around the galaxy, and look at some of the marvels of the cosmos, including where stars are born, supermassive black holes, and the wonderful planets in our own astronomical backyard.

There will be plenty of time to ask questions and everyone is welcome.

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ABOUT RAMI MANDOW

Rami Mandow is the Founding Director and Editor of the Australian space community website, SpaceAustralia.com – a platform that expands the accessibility to space for young people across Australia through news, events, education and citizen science projects. Currently, he is also one of Sydney Observatory’s resident astronomers. In his final year of his Masters of Astronomy & Astrophysics from Swinburne University of Technology, Rami has also dedicated his passion to studying the field of radio astronomy, including researching the exotic and mind-boggling compact remnant objects known as Pulsars. As part of these studies, Rami has logged over 330 hours of observing pulsars across the galaxy, using the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope (also known by its Wiradjuri name ‘Murriyang’).

Twitter: @CosmicRami
More: https://spaceaustralia.com/about-us

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