Astronomy on Tap is a series of events aimed at bringing astronomy and space science to the public, with informal talks by professional scientists, trivia, and beer! This month we are focusing on the James Webb Space Telescope! Bhagya Subrayan is a Physics and Astronomy PhD candidate at Purdue, who will be working with the […]
After a long time, and many breaks, hiatuses, and Astronomy’s at Home, for the first time in two years we are back in person this month! We’re excited to see all of you in person again! We are requiring vaccinations (including boosters) so make sure you remember to bring your vaccine cards. First, Dr. Pedro […]
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 […]
Mark your calendars for the second Astronomy on Tap Taipei event of 2022 on Friday the 25th of February! Hsiu-Hsien Lin (ASIAA) will give a talk about Fast Radio Bursts: an Enigma in Modern Astronomy. The event will take place at Ooh Cha Cha. It will be bilingual (English+Chinese). You can find information on the […]
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 […]
For our next event, we will be back at Grandcafé De Burcht (Burgsteeg 14, 2312 JS Leiden) on Monday 28 February at 20:00 CET. Join us for an evening of informal astronomy, fun games, and great beer. Laura Hayes and Rob Kavanagh will tell us about the Sun and the evolution of stars. Laura Hayes: "The Active […]
Join as David Calvert (NC State) talks about neutrinos and what they can tell us about supernovae. Then, Alex Sobotka (UNC-CH) will teach us about the Big Bang and clear up some common misconceptions regrading the theory. Make sure to show up on time so you don't miss out on some astronomy trivia!
"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 […]
It has been a while, but we are back with our first event of the year. This time we will hear all about dark matter from Prof. Dr. Pavel Kroupa, who is a professor at the Argelander Institut für Astrophysik in Bonn. He will be giving a brief summary of how physicists concluded that there […]
