October 2016: Picture of the Month
This is the new and highest resolution map of the universe’s most abundant gas. hydrogen.
This is the new and highest resolution map of the universe’s most abundant gas. hydrogen.
“Variable Stars: Action in the Sky”, presented by John Percy, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, and Dunlap Institute Abstract: Stars aren’t changeless and boring. They may eclipse, pulsate (vibrate), flare, erupt, or even explode. These processes cause the stars to vary in brightness over time and, by studying these variations, we…
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Nicknamed as Tianyan, or the Eye of Heaven, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is built within a natural basin in the Guizhou province of China.
“Planets Around Expired Stars”, presented by Professor Yanqin Wu Abstract: Professor Yanqin Wu investigates the formation and evolution of planets, both inside and outside our own Solar System. Her current attention is devoted to a recently discovered puzzle, the presence of planetary systems around white dwarf stars, stars that have lived through their lives and…
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Our Sun is most likely formed some five billion years ago in a similar stellar nursery such as NGC7129.
