Guest Speaker at UW Space Place
Ghost Hunting at 500 parsecs: Finding Magnetospheres of Massive Stars
Event Details
Date
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Time
7-8 p.m.
Location
Space Place, 2300 S. Park St.
Description
Our Galaxy's biggest, brightest stars can form vast glowing ghostly structures that astronomers call magnetospheres. Prof. Richard Townsend from the UW-Madison Astronomy Department will explain how he uses polarized starlight to map these magnetospheres and what we we can learn from them.
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Cost
Free
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