Listening to the Universe: The Taiji Mission

Date: January 25, 2025
Speaker: Hu Wenrui (Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Event: Beijing Planetarium Public Lecture Series
Location: Beijing Planetarium, Beijing, China
Type: Public
Keywords: public outreach, gravitational waves, science communication

Abstract

A public lecture introducing gravitational waves and the Taiji space mission to a general audience. The talk explains how gravitational waves allow us to "hear" the universe in a completely new way and describes China's ambitious plans to detect these cosmic ripples from space.

This public lecture made the exciting science of gravitational wave astronomy accessible to a broad audience, inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers.