Tucson’s local flavor of Astronomy on Tap, Space Drafts, presents its 91st edition featuring Nick Schragal and Azalee Bostroem! Plus Astronomy in the News with Drs. Jackie Champagne and Danny Krolikowski! Eclipses: From Earth to Exoplanets – Nick Schragal & The Hubble Space Telescope: more than just a pretty picture – Azalee Bostroem On tap […]
***This event will bilingual French/English – Cet évènement sera bilingue français/anglais*** We are back from the Summer break: join us for our September event to learn about black holes and failed space missions, play games with prizes to win, and talk with our wonderful crew of researchers! Our events are free and are open to […]
Bringing in the fall with Astronomy on Tap! We will have a “What’s Up?” astronomy news talk, a featured talk by UConn graduate student Skyler Wright, and trivia (with prizes!). Please join us at Hops44 at 7pm on 9/20/2023! This event is free and open to anyone!
AoT Gothenburg is back at Pitcher’s Majorna on Tuesday, 26 September 2023. Doors open at 19:00 CEST with the first talk starting at 19:30 CEST. This time, Clare Wethers (Chalmers) will reveal the secrets of the universe as told by quasars and Roberta Tripodi (University of Trieste) will take us back in time to the […]
Join us in-person for the September edition of Astronomy on Tap at the Varsity Theatre in Baton Rouge, LA! If you can’t attend in person, worry not—we’ll be livestreaming the event on our YouTube channel as well. As always, we’ll have games, raffles, glow sticks, swag, and space-themed drinks. ~Michael Baer, an LSU astronomy graduate […]
Exploration of the Solar System by spacecraft is in its 7th decade, since Mariner 2 flew by Venus in 1962. We will examine in detail the 3rd decade, which included NASA's Voyager mission to Uranus and Neptune and Galileo Mission flyby of Asteroid Gaspra, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Russian Venera mission to Venus and […]
The 𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗮𝗽 𝗧𝗮𝗶𝗽𝗲𝗶 team presents: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 𝔹ℝ𝔸ℕ𝔻 𝕊ℙ𝔸ℕ𝕂𝕀ℕ' ℕ𝔼𝕎 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ featuring: * 4-5 𝙍𝙊𝙐𝙉𝘿𝙎 𝙊𝙁 𝙏𝙍𝙄𝙑𝙄𝘼, with fabulous prizes for the winners! The team (up to 5 players) with the most points wins! * a round-up of the 𝙇𝘼𝙏𝙀𝙎𝙏 𝘼𝙎𝙏𝙍𝙊𝙉𝙊𝙈𝙔 𝙉𝙀𝙒𝙎 (bilingual) * 2 𝙎𝙃𝙊𝙍𝙏 𝙀𝘿𝙐𝘾𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉𝘼𝙇 𝘼𝙎𝙏𝙍𝙊𝙉𝙊𝙈𝙔 𝙏𝘼𝙇𝙆𝙎 geared towards a non-expert audience […]
Join us at 7:30PM AZT, Tuesday, October 10th for Astronomy on Tap at the North Rim Lodge at Grand Canyon National Park! We’ll hear from Caltech graduate student Delaney Dunne: "Cannibal Galaxies" and Caltech Professor of Planetary Science Dr. Katherine de Kleer: "The Solar System's Volcanic Wonderland." In addition, we will have a telescope on-hand […]
Join us at 7:30PM AZT, Wednesday, October 11th for Astronomy on Tap at the North Rim Lodge at Grand Canyon National Park! We’ll hear from Caltech postdoctoral fellow Dr. Rocio Kiman: "The Evolution of the Stars" and Caltech postdoctoral fellow Dr. Javier Roulet: "Black Holes and Gravitational Waves." In addition, we will have a telescope […]
A body so massive that not even light can escape. What else could be meant by that than a black hole? At first many scientists - including Einstein - thought that it should be impossible to form such a body. But in science the impossible i sometimes the reality and since 2019 we even have […]
