Join us for the 44th installation of Astronomy on Tap BCS! We'll have talks by Thomas Onyango on "Stars Composed of Exotic Matter" and Jacqueline Antwi-Danso on "Gotta Catch 'Em All: Searching for the Most Massive Galaxies in the Distant Universe." We will also have the usual assortment of trivia, Astronomy in the News by Alexander […]
Join us at 7:30PM PST, Monday, February 28th for a virtual Astronomy on Tap, streamed over YouTube Live. We’ll hear from Ron Tso: “Dancing Black Holes” and from Dr. Ylva Götberg: “Interacting Binary Stars: From the Computer to the Universe and Back”. In addition, we will host interactive, astronomically-themed pub trivia. The event is free […]
"Rubin's Galaxy": Hubble Observations of a Gentle Giant Spiral Benne Holwerda, U. Louisville UGC 2885 was discovered to be the most extended disk galaxy by Vera Rubin in the 1980's. It is close enough for HST observations to resolve the globular cluster population. This galaxy is a substantially more extended and massive disk than any […]
*RESCHEDULED TO 3/3 DUE TO WEATHER* Join us IN-PERSON at 6pm on Thursday, 3/3 for Astronomy on Tap at the Literary Bookstore and Bar! University of Illinois graduate students Kedar Phadke will be talking about the recently launched James Webb Space telescope: "The James Webb Space Telescope" with Kedar Phadke The James Webb Space Telescope […]
Join us at 7:30PM PST, Monday, March 14th for a virtual Astronomy on Tap, streamed over YouTube Live. We’ll hear from Dr. Amy Hoffman: “Cracking the Venusian Code with DAVINCI” and from Max Goldberg: “Putting the Time in Spacetime: How Time-Keeping has Revealed the Secrets of the Universe”. In addition, we will host interactive, astronomically-themed […]
Our next event is coming up on Friday, 18th March from 6-8pm at Sudwerk Brewing Co.! Since the event is in-person, Covid-19 vaccination and indoor masking will be required. We'll have talks by two incredible Ph.D. students from the UC Davis department -- come by to learn about dark matter as well as the […]
Join us at the Grand Stafford Theater for the 45th installation of Astronomy on Tap BCS! We'll have talks by Micalyn Rowe on "Space Cows: Our Solar System's Moooooooons" and Jonathan Cohn on "Supermassive Black Holes: Galactic Monsters and their Lairs." We will also have the usual assortment of trivia, Astronomy in the News by […]
Lutz Haberzettl, U. Louisville Venus is the nearest planet to Earth, but the last American mission to it was launched a third of a century ago in 1989. Since then, missions from other countries and ground-based observations have revealed it to be more mysterious than ever, and it is the subject of much renewed interest. […]
Welcome to the greatest science talks in Baton Rouge! Come check out the fantastic speakers that have come to give us great talks from the comfort of your own home! Birds in Space: A Story of Flight and Navigation Anna Hiller Anna will discuss how birds navigate using cues from space, and how they respond […]
Grab your drink and join us on April 12th for another virtual Astronomy on Tap! Dr. Joshua Schlieder will tell is about the Sun and its importance to our solar system. We will also explore the contents of the records on Voyager spacecraft with Marz Newman. This event will be live streamed on our YouTube […]
