Astronomy on Tap Flagstaff | How Stars Shape Worlds

This month’s speaker is Lowell astronomer Dr. Tyler Richey-Yowell, who will talk about how stars shape the planets that orbit them! The recent total solar eclipse was one of the few times we can see the Sun’s corona with our own eyes. While the corona appears invisible to us most of the time, it’s actually a big driver of why Earth, Mars, and the other solar system planets have the atmospheres (or lack thereof) that they do. Our Sun isn’t the only star that has a corona, however. Missions such as JWST are actively studying exoplanets as they eclipse their host star to understand how these planets are being shaped by their own star’s corona. We’ll see you there!