Month: March 2016

Star Talk: Exploring the Ghostly Side of Galaxies with Dragonfly

“Exploring the Ghostly Side of Galaxies with Dragonfly”, presented by Dr. Roberto Abraham Abstract: Bigger telescopes are usually better telescopes…. but not always. In this talk I will explore the ghostly world of large low surface brightness structures, such as galactic stellar halos, low-surface brightness dwarf galaxies, and other exotica such as supernova light echoes.…
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February 2016: Picture of the Month

Although space travel is not yet possible, consider visiting the planet Kepler-16b in a binary star system.