Live Faculty Talk: Collisions, Explosions, & Bangs, Oh My! - A Full-Spectrum Cosmic Journey
Event Information
Join Dr. John Bally to explore the violent birth and death of stars using images from our most advanced multi-wavelength telescopes in space and in the Atacama Desert. We will zoom into the constellation of Orion, the nearest site of on-going star and planet formation where massive stars are being born. Recent observations show that signals from a cataclysmic explosion behind the Orion Nebula reached Earth about 550 years ago. This event, which occurred during the height of the Roman empire around AD 175, released more energy than the Sun generates in ten million years. The study of this, and other explosions, is providing clues about the roles of massive stars in the formation of planets and the evolution of matter over cosmic time.
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