Post by Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe on Mar 14, 2006 2:24:57 GMT -6
Fellow Chicago Astronomers,
The Chicago Astronomical Society will conduct their monthly meeting tomorrow at the Adler, and the topic of discussion is interesting.
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March 1, 2006 at 7:00 P.M. at the ADLER PLANETARIUM
"Twinkle, Twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are? "
How do stars form? What determines the masses of the stars? How do brown
dwarfs form ? How can isolated brown dwarfs and even planetary-mass objects
form far away from any parent star? Why are binary stars common? Why do
some orbit in less than a day while others take millions of years? What
sets the rate at which stars form within a galaxy?
We are just beginning to learn that the one aspect all of these have in
common is...
Come on out March 1st and find out from Dr. Robert Fisher just what this aspect is.
The last decade has seen a monumental shift in astrophysical studies of the
interstellar medium away from simplified pioneering models toward the
fantastic complexity in the systems which Dr. Fisher will reveal to us.
By embracing these complexities astrophysicists have been able to naturally
explain many previously mysterious riddles...while at the same time
covering many new questions to wonder over. Dr. Robert Fisher, a post
doctoral research fellow at the University of Chicago is studying supernovae
and star formation.
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I think I will be there and try to learn something.
Joseph Guzmán
The Chicago Astronomer
Administrator & Founder
www.chicagoastronomer.com
astronomer.proboards23.com
"We are all in the Gutter, but some of us are looking at the Stars"
Oscar Wilde -1854-1900
The Chicago Astronomical Society will conduct their monthly meeting tomorrow at the Adler, and the topic of discussion is interesting.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
March 1, 2006 at 7:00 P.M. at the ADLER PLANETARIUM
"Twinkle, Twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are? "
How do stars form? What determines the masses of the stars? How do brown
dwarfs form ? How can isolated brown dwarfs and even planetary-mass objects
form far away from any parent star? Why are binary stars common? Why do
some orbit in less than a day while others take millions of years? What
sets the rate at which stars form within a galaxy?
We are just beginning to learn that the one aspect all of these have in
common is...
Come on out March 1st and find out from Dr. Robert Fisher just what this aspect is.
The last decade has seen a monumental shift in astrophysical studies of the
interstellar medium away from simplified pioneering models toward the
fantastic complexity in the systems which Dr. Fisher will reveal to us.
By embracing these complexities astrophysicists have been able to naturally
explain many previously mysterious riddles...while at the same time
covering many new questions to wonder over. Dr. Robert Fisher, a post
doctoral research fellow at the University of Chicago is studying supernovae
and star formation.
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I think I will be there and try to learn something.
Joseph Guzmán
The Chicago Astronomer
Administrator & Founder
www.chicagoastronomer.com
astronomer.proboards23.com
"We are all in the Gutter, but some of us are looking at the Stars"
Oscar Wilde -1854-1900