If you are stuck inside with the winter weather and looking for something to do, you can either head to sunny California to attend the March Carnegie Astronomy Lectures Series at The Huntington in San Marino or watch them on YouTube. This will be a series of four lectures.
On March 2nd, the first lecture of the series is titled “Ultraviolet Suspects: Using Galaxies to Shed Light on the Early Universe.” It is a free event, but you do need to register.
Here is a little more about this upcoming lecture:
One of the universe’s last phase changes, reionization, took place within the first billion years of its cosmic history. Today, astronomers can use the ultraviolet signals from distant galaxies to investigate the “who,” “when,” and “how” of that critical period. In this talk, Carnegie Science Observatories postdoc Tony Pahl will present his research on the high-energy radiation leaking from galaxies, which leverages data collected with a combination of instruments, including NASA’s JWST, the Keck Observatory telescopes in Hawaii, and Carnegie’s own twin Magellan telescopes at our Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.
The other March astronomy lectures are:
- March 16: Planetary Habitability: The Origin of Water
- March 30: Shining a Light on Dark Matter
- April 13: How To Look Inside An Exoplanet
Information on the upcoming March Astronomy Lecture Series will be posted on the Carnegie Science site.
You can also watch a variety of earlier lectures at the Carnegie Science YouTube link.
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