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 […]
Astronomy on Tap Groningen is back in person! The speaker of this month is Floris van der Tak, Senior Scientist at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research and Professor of Submillimeter Astronomy at the University of Groningen. He will be talking about The CO2 footprint of astronomy research in the Netherlands! Come join us for […]
What is space weather! Dr Anastasios Anastasiadis, Research Director of Space Physics at the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) at the National Observatory of Athens will tell us all about it! Tuesday 8 February 2022 19:00 CET live on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwxDPjqRTXw More about Dr Anastasiadis: http://members.noa.gr/anastasi/
Tucson’s local flavor of Astronomy on Tap, #SpaceDrafts, presents its 73rd edition featuring astronomers John Barentine and Kevin Hainline! The Ashen Light of Venus: Astronomy's Oldest Unsolved Mystery – John Barentine & JWST Update: From Launch to L2 – Kevin Hainline We have an exciting night of astronomy planned! We'll be joined by astronomer and author […]
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! Wild and Wonderful Space Volcanoes Dr. Caitlin Ahrens We'll explore the many flavors and varieties of volcanism on other planets and moons in our […]
请在北京时间2月19日周六上午11:30加入我们，参加线上《杯酒谈天》活动。本次活动将通过 YouTube 和微博进行直播。李邈博士与马林昊将分别讲述《夜空中最亮的星》和《恒星上的弄潮儿》。此外，我们还将举办以天文为主题的精彩活动。本次活动将完全以中文普通话进行。 该活动完全免费，并对所有年龄的人开放。 请在 YouTube 或微博上关注我们。查看历史活动，请关注我们的主页。更多关于我们未来的活动和在加州理工学院的附属讲座+观星系列的信息，参见我们的网站。 Join us at 7:30PM PST, Friday, February 18th for a virtual Astronomy on Tap event. It will be streamed over YouTube Live and Weibo. We’ll hear from Dr. Miao Li: “Brightest Stars in the Sky” and from Linhao Ma: “Surfing the Tides on Stars”. In addition, we will host interactive astronomically-themed […]
Join us for another installment of Astronomy on Tap: State College. We'll be at Happy Valley Brewing Company on Tuesday, February 22 from 6-8 pm (but arrive early to grab some great food and beer). James Gurian will give us a tour of the early universe in "The First 200 Million Years in 20 Minutes." […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This event will stream live from Astronomy on Tap Kingston! Tune in to hear the different methods astronomers use to study the cosmos. The evening will feature Space News, exciting trivia, and three fantastic scientists: Alvine Kamaha (UCLA), Arnaud Michel (Queen's), and Stéphane Courteau (Queen’s). We will have lots of time for questions with the […]
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 […]
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. Astronomy is the oldest science there is. And during that it's long […]