Happy 2022! Let's kick off the year with a change of topic! Very excited to host Adam McMaster from the Open University, working on the SuperWASP Variable Stars project on the Zooniverse! Tuesday 11 January 2022 @ 19:00 CET live on YouTube!
Tucson’s local flavor of Astronomy on Tap, #SpaceDrafts, presents its 72nd edition featuring astronomers Andrew Ryan and Sebastiaan Haffert! Glowing Planets: Origins and History of Thermal Planetary Science – Andrew Ryan & The Origin of Planets and Moons – Sebastiaan Haffert We have an exciting night of planets on tap this month! We'll be joined by […]
Mark your calendars for the first Astronomy on Tap Taipei event of 2022: we will be back on Friday the 21st of January! Ue-Li Pen (ASIAA) will show us why galaxies rotate and what we can learn from that in his talk: Dancing, Spinning Galaxies! The event will take place at Ooh Cha Cha. It […]
Join us at 7:30PM PST, Monday, January 24th for a virtual Astronomy on Tap, streamed over YouTube Live. We’ll hear from Dr. Amy Mainzer: “Don't Look Up: The Science of Near-Earth Objects” and from Dr. Dmitry Duev: “Astronomy without Astronomers”. In addition, we will host interactive, astronomically-themed pub trivia. The event is free and open […]
Join us for the first Astronomy on Tap BCS event of the year! We'll have a talk by Lauren Aldoroty on "The End of the Universe," after which a panel will answer all your burning questions about astronomy and space! We will also have the usual assortment of trivia, Astronomy in the News by Alexander […]
Our first event of the year will take place on Monday 31 January at 20:00 CET on ZOOM! That's right, you will have the opportunity to join us directly on the Zoom call and participate in the discussions and games. This month, Ashley Bemis and Ian Roberts will tell us all about the Milky Way […]
Join us as Dr. Rongmon Bordoloi (NC State) talks about Fermi Bubbles and how they could be related to the black hole at the center of our galaxy! Then, stick around after the talk for a bit of astronomy trivia and prizes. It's going to be a blast!
Quasars are the brightest objects in the Universe, supermassive black holes which attract vast whirlpools of gas around them, heated to millions of degrees. These ``cosmic lighthouses" illuminate lines of sight spanning billions of light years, revealing the shadows of galaxy haloes beyond where we can see the galaxies themselves. Making cosmic maps of these […]
Astronomy on Tap is a (FREE) series of events aimed at making the latest research in astronomy and space accessible to the public, with fun talks given in simple ENGLISH, and quiz, and plenty of time for mingling between our speakers and guests. This time last year AoT went online, and thought that we would […]