February 13, 2017 7:30-9:30PM
Event:
Astronomy on Tap
Venue:
Der Wolfskopf
Talk 1
Title: Galaxies are People Too
Lecturer: Louis Abramson
Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution: UCLA
Talk 2
Title: Pulsars: Spinning Stellar Corpses
Lecturer: Anna Ho
Position: Graduate Student
Institution: Caltech
Quiz Questions / Answers
- Which continent is the best for finding meteorites? Antarctica
- Where on the Moon did Apollo 11 land? Sea of Tranquility
- What solar system object has a heart-shaped planar region pictured here? Happy Valentimes! Pluto
- The Big Dipper has two stars called the "pointer stars". To what do they point? Polaris
- What property of the Earth is responsible for causing the Northern Lights by channeling charged particles to the Earth's poles? Magnetic Fields
- What Star Wars ship made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs? Millenium Falcon
- What major contribution earned Albert Einstein the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics? Photoelectric Effect
- Two engineers at Bell Labs in the 60s discovered "the afterglow of the Big Bang" with a radio antenna--what did they discover? Cosmic Microwave Background
- Why are sunspots darker than their surroundings on the surface of the Sun? Lower temperature
- Arabs have made significant advancements in astronomy. What is Orion's shoulder star (named in arabic)? Betelgeuse