General Meetings

Astro-cinematography from the Mount Laguna Observatory The stars and galaxies that fill the night sky appear roughly today as they have throughout human history. However, close inspection shows that these objects change, sometimes dramatically, over decades or months, or occasionally over just minutes. The field of time-domain astronomy has arisen in recent years thanks to […]

Music of the Spheres: Gravitational Waves from Black Holes The Nobel prize in 2016 was awarded for the detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO interferometer. So faint are these ripples that the only events powerful enough to produce detectable signals are the collisions of black holes and neutron stars, some forty times the mass […]

From Apples to Orange Juice: Can We Infer a Galaxy's Biography from Just One Photograph? Despite having data stretching back over 10 billion years and computer simulations that make realistic-looking galaxies starting from just gas and dark matter, humans do not have a theory that predicts why a galaxy looks the way it does based […]

This event has passed. To provide feedback about the meeting, click here. Our Dusty Universe The two first images of ESO’s GigaGalaxy Zoom project combined to show a whole view of the Milky Way as could be seen with the unaided eye, and a more central region observed with an amateur telescope.   Most of […]

RSVP using the link on the box above. Please install/update zoom client prior to the event. Cosmic Dawn: The Birth of Galaxies in our Universe The Milky Way is but one of an estimated two trillion galaxies in our observable Universe. Modern astronomical telescopes have revealed a rich ecosystem of galaxies, but our Universe wasn't […]

This event is free and open to public, to attend please use the zoom.us link on the box above. Uncovering the Death Throes of Massive Stars Through Supernovae Stars more massive than about 10 solar masses explode at the end of their life and die as supernovae. How massive stars look like when they explode? […]

This is an online event, to attend please register with zoom using the link on the box above. Download: Club Announcements This meeting's speaker changed at the last minutes and the information reflected here has not been updated. Dark Matter and the Dance of Dwarf Galaxies Major galaxies, such as our cosmic home the Milky Way, the […]