Join Astronomy on Tap Las Vegas for for a Halloween-themed event! UNLV astrophysicists Carl-Johan Haster and Margaret Johnston will be talking about the horrors of black holes, and all of the ways they make the universe a little bit spookier! The event takes place at Astronomy Aleworks and begins on Thursday, October 27th […]
This month's Astronomy on Tap Taipei will be held at Red Room Rendezvous, starting at 8pm. We'll be putting you in your place this month, looking at how scientists learned Earth's place in the Solar System, and the wider cosmos. We'll also be going through some common astronomical misconceptions, revealing if the stars you see […]
Our next event will take place on Monday 31 October at Grandcafé de Burcht (Burgsteeg 14, 2312 JS Leiden) at 20:00 CET! Join us for a night of astronomy with two fantastic talks from Serena Viti and Thanja Lamberts who will tell us about molecules in the birthplace of stars. As always, there will be fun games where […]
If talking about astronomy and space science over drinks in a bar sounds like fun to you, you better save these space-time coordinates: October 31 at ONO in Bern. Come to the 10th Edition of Astronomy on Tap Bern and listen to various talks, from Exoplanet Memes to why astronomers like to get high. Get […]
DART is a planetary defense-driven test of technologies for preventing a threat to Earth by a hazardous asteroid. DART is the first-ever practical demonstration of the kinetic impactor technique to change the motion of an asteroid in space by striking the asteroid Dimorphos at high relative velocity and then observing the resulting change in its orbital period around […]
Masers: the signature of molecules emitting coherent light in distant galaxies Benne Holwerda, U. Louisville In 2021, we found in the LADUMA (Looking At the Distant Universe with the MeerKAT Array) survey the telltale signature of hydroxyl (a molecule with one oxygen and one hydrogen atom) emitting coherent radio light. The process is known as […]
Come check out Astronomy on Tap Triangle, our North Carolina chapter of short and engaging talks about astronomy over beer. Find us in the taproom of Fullsteam Brewery in Durham, NC from 7-9 PM on Wednesday, November 2nd! Are you a fan of the hit TV show Dancing with the Stars?! While we won't have any […]
AoT SATX will host its November event on Wed. November 2nd at 7 pm at the Blue Star Brewing Co.! UTSA-SwRI Graduate Student Sam Hart will present "The Great Solar Storm of 1859: A Modern Day Doomsday Scenario!" SwRI's Dr. Vincent Hue will present "Jupiter's Magnificent Light Show: When Moon Creates Auroras"
Please join us for our 20th (!!!) Astronomy on Tap Charlottesville event on Monday, November 7th from 7-9pm at Three Notch'd Craft Kitchen & Brewery. We will have talks by Astronomy graduate student Bri Mills, UVA Professor Ed Murphy, and Ezequiel Treister (Associate Professor, Institute of Astrophysics, Catholic University in Chile) who is visiting NRAO […]
With us Olivia Cooper, a third year astronomy graduate student at UT Austin working with Professor Caitlin Casey. Her research focuses on bright and early galaxies, and the role of these massive galaxies in the evolution of the Universe in the first two billion years. She graduated from Smith College in May 2020 with degrees […]
