AoT C'ville is returning to in person events! Our next event will take place on Tuesday, October 26th (postponed from our previous Oct 25 due to weather) at Champion Grill - Stonefield from 7-9pm EDT. We'll be set up outside and have our usual set of astronomy themed talks and trivia. To take advantage of […]
Astronomy on Tap Bonn is back in the Fiddlers pub! Join us to kick start our season 4 in person on October 26th @ 7pm! Dr Arnaud Belloche will talk to us about "Organische Moleküle in der Milchstraße" and Dr Sandra Unruh will present the latest on the Ig Nobel Prize :"Making People Laugh, Then […]
Join us for a virtual event at 7:00 p.m. PT, 27th October 2021, live streamed onto YouTube at this link, which will feature talks by Professor Smadar Naoz and Rory Bentley from UCLA. Gravitational Waves at the Heart of Galaxies: Gravitational-wave emissions are small ripples in the fabric of spacetime that are emitted when two masses accelerate toward each […]
Join us at the Grand Stafford Theater for the 40th installation of Astronomy on Tap BCS! This spooky season, our talks will be by Sarah Cantu on "Zombies and Witches and Vampires, Oh My!... Wait, I thought this was an astronomy talk?" and Ryan Oelkers on "The Habitable Zone: Where Are The Aliens?" We will […]
Acompáñenos a las 15:00 (hora del Pacífico), el lunes 1 de noviembre para una Astronomía en el Bar virtual, transmitida por YouTube Live. Escucharemos a la Dra. Sofia Gallego presentando: “El Universo es una Gigantesca Telaraña” y al Dr. Geronimo Villanueva presentando: “Revelando los Misterios del Sistema Solar con JWST”. Además, organizaremos una sesión de “trivia de bar” […]
Dr. Rachel Smith, head of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Lab at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, will be taking us on a virtual tour of our neighboring planets and even out beyond the solar system! As we fly through space, she will discuss the search for life beyond Earth and planetary analogues to Earth’s […]
The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy. Dr. James Lauroesch will give a history of this stellar instrument, from the years of planning to launch, five servicing missions and the discoveries which changed some fields and began others.
Our next event (and final for the year) will occur this week! We will have Craig Yanitski explaining the various theories of gravity, from the antiquated Aristotelian point of view up to the current research in modified Newtonian dynamics. When he isn't trying to engage the public in astronomy, Craig works on his doctoral thesis […]
Join us at 7:30PM PDT, Monday, November 8th for a special Astronomy on Tap celebrating the imminent launch of the James Webb Space Telescope streamed over YouTube Live. We’ll hear from Dr. Colette Salyk: "Where Does Beer Come From? JWST Will Tell Us" and from Dr. Sasha Hinkley: "Seeing Exoplanets in a Whole New Light […]
Astronomy on Tap Groningen is back in person! The speaker of this month is Daniele Ronso, Aeronautics Engineer, Master in Space Science and Technology and PhD Candidate in Astronomy at the Kapteyn Institute, Groningen. She will be talking about ASTROARCHEOLOGY: Astronomy in the Ancient South-America! Come join us for this live talk at the BUCKSHOT […]
