tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73574151716574548212024-03-05T00:31:34.751-08:00Caltech Astronomy Outreach Past EventsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04708248693205550544noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357415171657454821.post-9116754860743074832017-04-17T21:30:00.000-07:002017-04-20T12:10:19.586-07:00Astronomy on Tap: Black Holes and Exoplanets!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Astronomy on Tap hit two very different topics tonight: black hole simulations, and observations of our nearest exoplanet, Proxima b. Starting us off, <a href="http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~mokounko/">Maria Okounkova</a>, discussed the history of numerical relativity simulations of how black holes behave when interacting and merging, and made this easily understandable by comparing it with the television program The Great British Bakeoff. Numerical relativity has enabled such recent discoveries as the LIGO gravitational wave detection of 2015.<br />
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After Maria, we had a talk by visiting scientist, <a href="http://www.devinsilvia.com/">Dr. Devin Silvia</a>, who described the recent discovery of Proxima b, an exoplanet orbiting the closest star outside of our solar system. With a bit of humor, he covered why it's important to have discovered this planet, and the possibility of us ever visiting it in our lifetime!<br />
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Our lecture topic this evening covered the seemingly-simple question of "Why do Stars Shine?" Our speaker, <a href="http://user.astro.columbia.edu/~robyn/">Dr. Robyn Sanderson</a>, was able to effectively explain the history of our knowledge about stars and how they work to a wide audience made up of people of all ages. She even incorporated a music video from They Might Be Giants on Why Stars Shine, as well as an activity where children from the audience acted like atomic nuclei in the Sun's core, bouncing into each other until they fused. Check out this video capturing their activity:<br />
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There's also the They Might Be Giants video on youtube <a href="https://youtu.be/3JdWlSF195Y">here</a>. As well as the applet she used to showcase the change in color of stars with their increased temperature (and mass) <a href="http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/blackbody-spectrum">here</a>.</div>
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Afterwards, we had both stargazing (not pictured) as well as a Q&A panel to answer audience members questions on a variety of topics. This discussion got into a lot of non-astronomical topics including climate change, and chemical bonding in plants. Well done, team!<br />
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Our March Astronomy on Tap, on the day before <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day&source=gmail&ust=1492802014714000&usg=AFQjCNGzPCRxSI5Y7-UbG6uJOMOGm6J_Tg" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Pi Day</a>, was one for the ages! <a href="http://rlivermore.com/">Dr. Rachael Livermore</a>, a postdoctoral researcher at the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.as.utexas.edu/&source=gmail&ust=1492802014715000&usg=AFQjCNGuylk1ioOgr1YbWvGpyrRJHu1F0A" href="http://www.as.utexas.edu/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">University of Texas at Austin</a>, happened to be visiting the area, so she began by explaining the fundamentals of gravitational lensing and showing how galaxy clusters can bend light on cosmological scales. Rachael founded the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://astronomyontap.org/locations/austin-tx/&source=gmail&ust=1492802014715000&usg=AFQjCNFui1VIpRsYUpK4be20Cq1bfx6DiA" href="http://astronomyontap.org/locations/austin-tx/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Astronomy on Tap chapter in Austin</a>, and her experience showed as she wielded science and the stage in a masterful and informative way!</div>
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Our final speaker was <a href="http://jmorenosoto.wixsite.com/astroboy-moreno/bio-pi">Dr. Jorge Moreno</a>, a professor at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.cpp.edu/~sci/physics-astronomy/academic-programs/astronomy-program.shtml&source=gmail&ust=1492802014715000&usg=AFQjCNHAHUhKGIFdMJEVEAE8enjWHXVA4g" href="https://www.cpp.edu/~sci/physics-astronomy/academic-programs/astronomy-program.shtml" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Cal Poly Pomona</a> who will soon make the exciting transition to a professor position at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.pomona.edu/academics/departments/physics-and-astronomy&source=gmail&ust=1492802014715000&usg=AFQjCNE6slAOtUjjAdae_uanh8w2Ueq7iQ" href="https://www.pomona.edu/academics/departments/physics-and-astronomy" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Pomona College</a>. In his Astronomy on Tap debut, Jorge taught the crowd about how galaxies collide and merge and the computer simulations he and other astronomers write to help understand the underlying physics. To conclude, Jorge gave a second talk regarding diversity and social justice within astronomy specifically and the United States more generally. Jorge is Chair of the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://csma.aas.org/&source=gmail&ust=1492802014715000&usg=AFQjCNFNPSBooybg1AzzSYhw2e4wiZhTwg" href="https://csma.aas.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy</a>, and gave a riveting speech about the under-representation of several demographics within astronomy, and what individuals can to do promote awareness and change the culture from within.<br /></div>
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We hosted famed Professor <a href="http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~kbatygin/Home.html">Konstantin Batygin</a> tonight for a lecture on his theory for the potential origin of Hot Jupiters, a class of massive exoplanets found near their host stars. Professor Batygin is famous for his work with Mike Brown on Planet 9, that there is an undiscovered planet in the outer solar system influencing the dynamics of massive Kuiper-belt objects, but tonight he talked about exoplanets instead. Professor Batygin gave a really engaging, but pretty advanced talk on how Hot Jupiters, *could* form in situ without the need for migrating inward as the popular paradigm currently dictates. It was thought-provoking and well-delivered--thank you, Konstantin!<br />
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Afterwards, we were able to observe on the newly renovated athletic fields near Cahill, and the athletics department even turned off some of their stadium lights for us. Great views of the heavens tonight!<br />
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Anna talked about pulsars, the end point of massive stars, and how we detect them with a variety of instruments. She discussed the history of these exotic objects, and how they were initially thought to be alien signals! Overall it was a great talk followed with lots of questions!<br />
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We had our usual quiz afterwards, and I guess I made the quiz too easy, since we had 6 people get 10/10! I had to use a tie-breaker question to narrow down the winners to give adequate prizes. Thanks, everyone for coming!<br />
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--CameronAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04708248693205550544noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357415171657454821.post-36611414642758718102017-02-03T19:00:00.000-08:002017-04-20T11:48:58.133-07:00Lecture & Stargazing: The Science of Star Trek<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.65px;"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.65px;"> Tonight was a unique talk topic targeting the science of the fictional Star Trek universe given by <a href="http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~mlwong/">Mike Wong</a>, a planetary science superstar graduate student. He even created his own poster for our event, which is without a doubt better than the one I produced for it!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.65px;"> Mike touched on all sorts of Star Trek lore and its basis in our own understanding of science and astrophysics throughout the show's history. He described the Drake Equation, the principle governing how many intelligent civilizations may exist in our Universe today, and what it meant for the premise of having a Federation of Planets by Gene Roddenberry. Mike discussed the premise that in the future our society won't be driven by the acquisition of wealth, but on more altruistic goals. He touched on the twin planets of Remus and Romulus and how realistic these worlds are, now that we have some understanding of planetary evolution. Overall, this was one of the best talks we've ever had, and it was a pleasure working with Mike.</span></div>
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The weather was somewhat cooperative, so we had some telescope observing despite not having full access to the athletic fields due to construction. In addition to observing, we offered a panel Q&A on a variety of astrophysical topics. We addressed a plethora of questions on topics related to cosmology, the evolution of stars, the x-ray universe, and how we became scientists. Thanks for coming, everyone!<br />
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Next, we had a delightful talk by Caltech graduate student, <a href="http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~ie/">Ivanna Escala</a>, discussing the various ways in which galaxies can get ripped apart, starved of their star-forming fuel, or eaten by larger galaxies!</div>
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It was a fun night and a great way to finish off the year. Have a great holiday, everyone. See you in January!</div>
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<a href="http://www.astro.caltech.edu/people/faculty/Nick_Scoville.html">Professor Nick Scoville,</a> esteemed professor and principle investigator of the COSMOS survey, gave a lecture tonight on the revolutionary new telescope <a href="http://www.almaobservatory.org/en/about-alma">ALMA</a>. ALMA is an NSF-funded telescope, operating in the radio part of the electromagnetic spectrum, consisting of 66 individual radio dishes. It was built in the high mountains of the Andes in Northern Chile above 5,000 meters of elevation. </div>
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We got started a little late due to some technical difficulties with the equipment in the lecture hall, but Professor Scoville regaled us with a broad discussion as to how both optical and radio telescopes work. He showed us photos from his visit to the ALMA site, and taught us how scientists use data from the various telescopes combined as an interferometer to get very high resolution images back of gas and molecular cloud structures where stars are being born. It was really an excellent talk!</div>
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Thanks to everyone who attended, and again I'm sorry about the technical difficulties with the A/V setup. It won't happen again.<br />
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Tonight's Astronomy on Tap event was an exciting one, featuring talks on some very popular topics including the search for life in the universe and black holes! Attendance was a little light, probably due to this week being the Thanksgiving holiday, but I think all the attendees had a good time regardless. We started off with a talk by Ricky Nilsson, who discussed the probability that extraterrestrial life may exist, and in what form such life might find itself. This argument featured the famous Drake Equation detailing the uncertainties in how detecting life, intelligent life, and intelligent life capable of communicating with us over the vast distances of the cosmos. </div>
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Next up was Hannalore Gerling-Dunsmore, who put together a whole game show called "Black Hole Jeopardy" for audience members. Black hole information sheets were placed around the room over the course of the night, so people could familiarize themselves with information about black holes. Then three lucky contestants were selected from our audience (professional astronomers were barred from participating). These contestants played a modification on the popular game: Jeopardy! with black hole-related questions. While Hannalore's questions were very challenging, even to those of us with formal training in astrophysics, the contestants did pretty well, and they were rewarded with NASA-related prizes like tshirts and pint glasses. I think everyone learned something about black holes from this event.</div>
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Tonight we hosted a lecture by <a href="http://erikahamden.org/">Dr. Erika Hamden</a>, who described how to prepare for the <a href="https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/">Great American Eclipse</a>. The Great American Eclipse is a total solar eclipse set to occur next August, where the center line (the strip where the total eclipse will be visible) will stretch across the continental United States. Erika gave some background on eclipses, what causes them, and what you can see when they happen. She detailed her experiences having seen one in China in 2008, and pressured everyone to get to somewhere on the center line next summer to catch this one-in-a-lifetime opportunity!<br />
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After her lecture, we had a Q&A panel with our local experts answering questions on all sorts of topics ranging from future rocket engine drives to the most interesting and underrated discoveries in the field of astronomy in the last year.<br />
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Due to the proximity to Halloween, we invited guests and volunteers alike to show up in their costumes. I brought Oscar the Grouch along, and several of the attendees showed up in costumes.<br />
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Observations went well, and we saw several targets including the first-quarter moon, Mars, and the Double Cluster before the end of the night. See you again next month!<br />
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Today was the <a href="http://www.cityofastronomy.org/astronomy-festival/">Pasadena Astronomy Festival</a>, the final event of <a href="http://www.cityofastronomy.org/astronomy-week-2016/">Pasadena Astronomy Week</a> at the <a href="http://pasadenacenter.visitpasadena.com/">Pasadena Convention Center</a>. It was a whole-day event staffed by members of all of the Pasadena-based astronomy institutions: Caltech, JPL, IPAC, Carnegie, Planetary Society, Mt. Wilson Observatory, Thirty Meter Telescope, Giant Magellan Telescope, and KidSpace. </div>
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There were all sorts of activities and booths set up for members of the public to visit and learn about the universe. There was the booth demonstrating how to make a comet with household materials (and dry ice):</div>
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A couple of infrared cameras demonstrating how things look in the near-infrared part of the spectrum (primarily by surface temperature):<br />
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<br />Our first speaker of the night was <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameswarrenashley">Dr. James Ashley</a>, a scientists at JPL, who studies meteorites. He taught us all about meteorites from other planets, and the vast amount of information we can learn about these planetary surfaces and atmosphere from them. Thanks, James!<br />
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Thanks to everyone who came out to our events this week, and check out some of the other Pasadena Astronomy Week events through Saturday. For more photographs from these Astronomy on Tap nights, check out the <a href="http://www.cityofastronomy.org/astronomy-on-tap/">Pasadena Astronomy Week photo page</a>.<br />
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Tonight was our second consecutive Astronomy on Tap event for <a href="http://www.cityofastronomy.org/astronomy-week-2016/">Pasadena Astronomy Week</a>. Pasadena Astronomy Week is a series of events showcasing the ways in which Pasadena-based institutions have made important contributions to the field of astronomy and astrophysics. Not only did we have a good turnout of excited members of the public, but <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Tornek">Pasadena Mayor Terry Tornek</a> showed up too! We presented him with a NASA calendar highlighting exoplanetary discoveries made by the astronomical community.<br />
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Our two speakers were Caltech astronomers, <a href="https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/alexander-urban1/">Dr. Alex Urban</a> and <a href="http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~ebellm/">Dr. Eric Bellm</a> talking about their relative fields of study. Alex discussed how we can use telescopes to try to followup and find the locations of LIGO gravitational wave detections.<br />
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Tonight we helped kick off <a href="http://www.cityofastronomy.org/astronomy-week-2016/">Pasadena Astronomy Week</a> with our first of three consecutive Astronomy on Tap events. Pasadena Astronomy Week is a series of events showcasing the ways in which Pasadena-based institutions have made important contributions to the field of astronomy and astrophysics. And our Astronomy on Tap focused on many of these topics where scientists from Caltech, JPL, IPAC, Carnegie Observatories, and more have had a serious impact on our understanding of the heavens. Tonight we had two Caltech astronomers, <a href="http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~jwang/">Dr. Ji Wang</a>, and <a href="https://astridlamberts.wordpress.com/">Dr. Astrid Lamberts</a> talking about their relative fields of study.</div>
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Astrid talked about the recent LIGO announcement of a gravitational wave detection of two black holes colliding and merging. She discussed her recent paper wherein she tries to determine the location of the two black holes and what sorts of galaxies these black holes resided. Very interesting stuff!<br />
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Ji talked about his use of adaptive optics to remove the blurriness of images taken from earth-bound telescopes. Turbulence in the atmosphere between us and distant astronomical objects causes stars to twinkle. While this is a nice effect for the casual observer, for professional astronomers it introduces blurring in long-exposure images, which makes it difficult to image astronomical objects accurately. Adaptive optics actually bends and warps a telescope's mirror hundreds of times a second in order to account for the turbulence in the atmosphere, enabling observers like Ji to detect planets around other stars. Terrific talk, Ji!<br />
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Graduate student Jake Jencson taught us about the catastrophic deaths of stars, and the brilliant explosions associated with them: supernovae. After the lecture, IPAC post docs Rahul Patel and Calen Henderson held a Q&A and answered questions on exoplanets, other solar systems in our galaxy, and science fiction.<br />
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Outside, we were partially clouded out by drifting clouds. Even so, the over 80 visitors who came to the telescopes got to see the Moon, Mars, and the double star Albireo.<br />
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Thank you to the volunteers who helped make the evening such a success, and thank you to the over 120 visitors who attended — we hope to see you all back in a month for Erika's talk on how to prepare for the Great American Eclipse of 2017!<br />
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The September 2016 Astro on Tap in Pasadena at Der Wolfskopff pub had an interesting start, as many of the audience members were mesmerized by the first Presidential debate. But after we decided to turn off the debates and start the session, the mood in the bar was lifted dramatically. We started off with Dr. Ragnild Lunan, a postdoc at Caltech, talking about "Spectacular Stellar Explosions" and the science of supernovae and old stars that eventually die off in spectacular explosions!<br />
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We also had a lot of people participate in our astro trivia challenge. After a difficult selection, we gave away a few prizes including a NASA mug, t-shirt and exoplanet poster! All in all, it was a great positive night, despite the looming debate earlier in the night.<br />
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Tonight was our first night in a new location for our lecture series. Due to some construction issues, we've now moved our lectures to Baxter Lecture Hall and our stargazing to Beckman Lawn (see our <a href="http://outreach.astro.caltech.edu/directions">directions</a> page for more info). After some logistical issues we got started a few minutes late. <a href="https://github.com/annayqho">Anna Ho</a>, our speaker for the night, gave a tremendous talk on the invisible universe, the universe we cannot directly perceive with our eyes. </div>
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Stargazing out on the lawn was also pretty successful, and it looks like our new spot has less light pollution than the North Field. We observed Albireo, Saturn, Mars, and the Moon. Thanks to all 70 people who showed up at our new location! We hope to see you again next month.<br />
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We hosted another <a href="http://astronomyontap.org/">Astronomy on Tap</a> event at <a href="http://www.derwolfskopf.com/">Der Wolfskopf Pub</a> tonight, and everyone had a great time. We started the night with a stellar talk by <a href="http://www.iac.es/galeria/mseidel/">Dr. Marja Seidel</a>, a postdoc at the <a href="http://obs.carnegiescience.edu/">Carnegie Institute</a> in Pasadena. Marja's talk was entitled "Galaxies with Edwin", and it was a comic-style presentation telling the story of how Edwin Hubble (and Henrietta Leavitt) discovered that our Milky Way galaxy was not the entirety of the Universe. It was a great topic and a really innovative manner of presenting!</div>
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Lastly, we had a great Q&A panel, discussing planets, life in the universe, telescopes, and black holes. A fabulous evening for all!<br /><br />On the stargazing front, three telescopes observed Mars, Saturn, and the Moon to start, before switching over to other dark sky targets later in the night. Some of our attendees looked studiously for meteors, but there were only a few sightings so early in the night. This will be our last star gazing from the north field for a few months, while the athletic department installs a turf field. Be on the look out for information on our new location for the next few months!</div>
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We had our second <a href="http://astronomyontap.org/">Astronomy on Tap</a> event tonight, and it was a packed house. A few days earlier, <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/arts/11-cheap-and-free-things-to-do-this-week-7167770">LA Weekly had featured us as a fun activity to do in LA this week</a>, and thus we ended up with over 110 people filling up our venue, <a href="http://www.derwolfskopf.com/">Der Wolfskopf Pub</a>. <br />
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We started the night with a great talk by <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/rachaellbeaton/">Dr. Rachael Beaton</a>, a postdoc at the <a href="http://obs.carnegiescience.edu/">Carnegie Institute</a> in Pasadena. Rachael's talk was entitled "The First Beer Came from Space", and it covered how and why different types of atoms and molecules, form in the cores of stars and in the clouds of gas in the far reaches of space. Even our favorite molecule, alcohol, can form in these systems. Rather than sending up space craft to mine rare metals in asteroids, she suggested we might mine the quadrillions of gallons of alcohol in these clouds.<br />
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We had an intermission where the audience could interact with the various astronomers present in the audience, and we had astronomy-themed quiz questions flash across the television monitors. After about 20 minutes, our second talk was given by <a href="http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/rpatel/">Dr. Rahul Patel</a> from <a href="http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/">NASA's IPAC facility</a> in Pasadena. Rahul spoke about the recent Juno mission that NASA launched to Jupiter, what its goals were, and what we can learn from it. </div>
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After another intermission period, several of our local experts got up to answer audience questions on a variety of astrophysical topics including galaxies, black holes, and more. Finally, we graded the quiz questions and went through them together. Our winner received a signed copy of Caltech Astrophysicist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Thorne">Dr. Kip Thorne</a>'s book: "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Science-Interstellar-Kip-Thorne/dp/0393351378">The Physics of Interstellar</a>".<br />
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It was a packed house tonight for our lecture featuring <a href="http://chummels.org/">Dr. Cameron Hummels</a> explaining how scientists use computers to simulate different astrophysical phenomena. Cameron described how computers provide us with a means of creating "experiments" inside the virtual space of a computer, where we can control every factor by programming in the physical laws that we want to test. He provided some simple examples including falling and bouncing balls, planets orbiting the Sun, and then showcased some cutting-edge simulations involving supernovae, galaxy mergers, and the evolution of our Universe as a whole. Cameron even had a live demo where he logged on to the <a href="http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/enabling/bluewaters">Blue Waters supercomputer</a>, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, and showed that it isn't as fancy as you might expect it to be based on its portrayal in movies and television programs.</div>
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Afterwards, we had a panel Q&A from our experts to answer all of your questions about various fields within astrophysics including the cosmic microwave background, human space flight, and dark matter. Some excellent discussion was had!<br />
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Finally, people joined us on the adjacent field for excellent views of our Solar System and beyond. We had great views of many of our planetary neighbors including Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, and the Moon. In between planetary targets, we spent some time looking at the Ring Nebula, a beautiful nearby planetary nebula, and Albireo, a great double star with two very differently colored stars.<br />
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The lecture and panel Q&A were recorded, so you can watch them at your leisure on <a href="https://mh-echo360-srv2.caltech.edu:8443/ess/echo/presentation/2f2b6e53-ef98-4d2c-b6cb-470dd14af446?ec=true">this page</a>. Thanks to all 150 people who came out tonight, and make sure to come back for our next event, <a href="http://outreach.astro.caltech.edu/aot">Astronomy on Tap</a>, in two weeks!<br />
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Tonight we had our very first ever <a href="http://astronomyontap.org/">Astronomy on Tap</a> event held in Los Angeles, and it was a wild success! <a href="http://astronomyontap.org/">Astronomy on Tap</a> is a nation-wide phenomenon where professional astronomers give informal talks in local bars on a variety of scientific topics followed by lots of discussion and interaction with the public. Until now, there have been no organized events happening in Los Angeles, but we at Caltech are partnering with several other neighboring educational institutions to make this happen. <br />
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We held our first event at <a href="http://www.derwolfskopf.com/">Der Wolfskopf</a>, a german beer bar located in Old Town Pasadena gracious enough to offer us happy hour prices all night on food and on one of their beers. The event was structured to have two short astronomically-themed talks with 15-minute intermission periods separating them. During each intermission, audience members were encouraged to talk to the astronomers present in addition to playing our astronomy quiz that was being broadcast on the television sets. <br />
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen gave our talk for the night entitled "Exoplanet Roulette: Choose your Fate". The premise is that you have the opportunity to travel to some exoplanet in the Universe, but you don't know which one. By spinning the game wheel, you discover which exoplanet where you'll end up. <br />
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A couple of the exoplanets were happy endings for our audience members, but by and large the bulk of the exoplanets that have thus far been discovered are not very hospitable to human life. <br />
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Unfortunately, our second speaker had an emergency and wasn't able to join us. We had a short panel Q&A with the variety of astronomers present, where prizes were awarded for particularly good questions from the audience. Lastly, we finished the night by grading the trivia quizzes that people had submitted. There was a three-way tie with 8/10 correct, and each winner won a prize of a NASA shirt or mug. Congratulations to all of our winners!<br />
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Thanks to all 70 of the attendees and we hope you'll spread the word about our next event in a month on Monday, July 25 at 7:30PM.<br />
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During tonight's lecture, Chiara Mingarelli taught us all about black holes: why they are black, how they interact with their environments, and the various ways astronomers can detect them. Importantly, she broke down the common misconception of black holes acting as vacuum cleaners, and conclusively demonstrated that black holes *don't* suck, they just act like any other concentration of mass.</div>
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If you wish to see a recording of the lecture and subsequent Q&A panel, you can view them <a href="https://mh-echo360-srv2.caltech.edu:8443/ess/echo/presentation/8cefad7f-faac-4ec1-ae78-33648bd9c362?ec=true">here</a>. Thanks to the hundred or so people who turned up!</div>
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