Seminar: “Galaxies in Collision”
You’re invited to a free public astronomy seminar in Second Life. Here are the details:
Dr. Knop Talks Astronomy
Title: “Galaxies in Collision”
Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Time (SL Time)
Abstract:
Stars within a galaxy like our own almost never collide with each other. Galaxies themselves, however, run into each other all the time. What’s more, when the Universe was younger and smaller, they ran into each other more often. In this talk, I’ll give an overview of the sorts of things we see observationally when galaxies run into each other, causing not only the beautiful cosmic collisions that we’ve seen images of, but also triggering huge bursts of star formation and even tremendous activity at the nucleus of those galaxies.
All are welcome. Feel free to ask questions or make comments.
In the Galaxy Dome floating above the sim named ‘Spaceport Bravo’
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Bravo/117/66/278
This talk is part of a series of popular talks called Dr. Knop Talks Astronomy. Dr. Knop was on one of the teams that discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Produced in association with the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA). For more information, see http://mica-vw.org/
Link on the Official SL Events calendar:
https://secure-web22.secondlife.com/events/event.php?id=1994318&date=1224918000
