December 12, 2016 7:30-9:30PM

Event: Astronomy on Tap
Venue: Der Wolfskopf

Talk 1

Title: Finding the Universe's first galaxies
Lecturer: Jordan Mirocha
Position: Postdoctoral Fellows
Institution: UCLA

Talk 2

Title: Unhealthy Galaxies: Cannibalism, Strangulation & Stripping
Lecturer: Ivanna Escala
Position: Graduate Student
Institution: Caltech

Quiz Questions / Answers

* This week marked the passing of the final Mercury Astronaut�who was it? John Glenn * What was the name of the Mercury Astronaut�s first space craft? Friendship 7 * In Star Wars, what is the volcano planet where Anakin fights Obiwan? Mustafar * Edwin Hubble used what kind of stars to determine that Andromeda Galaxy was far away and separate from our Milky Way? Cepheid Variables * The Galilean Moons orbit what planet? Jupiter * What popular automobile manufacturer is named after a Japanese constellation? Subaru * What force keeps our atmosphere from drifting off of the Earth? Gravity * What happened in Tunguska, Siberia in 1908? Meteor Impact * What happens if a white dwarf star gets too massive? SN Ia * Called the fourth phase of matter, this is an extremely hot gas�what is it? Plasma