This is a free and open to the public online event. Join Zoom Three Decades of the Hubble Space Telescope After decades of discussion and construction, the Hubble Space Telescope was finally launched on April 24, 1990. While HST was not the first space telescope, it represented a major […]
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This is a free and open to the public online event. Join Zoom Rovers on Mars: 21st Century Natural History Expeditions to Another Planet Perseverance and Ingenuity are the current culmination of a long list of missions to Mars. During the first 400 days of operation on the surface of […]
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This is a free and open to the public online event. Join Zoom The Backstory of Contact Binary Stars Contact binary star systems have the remarkable property that they orbit so closely they share a common atmosphere. They are the most common type of eclipsing binary star system. Despite extensive observations over […]
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This is a free and open to the public online event. Join Zoom Cosmic rays, antimatter, dark matter: connecting the dots In August 1912, Austrian physicist Victor Hess made a discovery that opened a new window to the most energetic phenomena happening in the universe: he had discovered cosmic rays. Cosmic […]
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This is a free and open to the public online event. Join Zoom The Dynamic Sky: How We Find Discover and Understand Stellar Explosions in the 21st Century Humans have recorded the appearance of "new stars" since prehistory, but only in the last century have astronomers begun […]
This is a free and open to the public online event. Join Zoom X-raying the Winds of Giant Stars We are made of stardust—or, at least in significant parts, of material produced in giant stars. These giant stars have strong winds that strip away the outer layers of stellar material. […]