Galaxies, Inside the Universe's Star Cities

Galaxies, Inside the Universe's Star Cities

Saturday, September 5 @ 7:00 PM via Zoom

Contact Steve Hubbard (cstahhs@gmail.com) for Zoom Meeting link and information. 

This slide-illustrated talk will explore the vast explosion of knowledge astronomers have gained about the basic units of stars, gas, and dust over the past two decades. The 100 billion galaxies in the cosmos tell us a tale of the formation and evolution, and secrets in our own Milky Way tell us about how galaxies formed. The talk will explore such topics as the ubiquitous nature of black holes, the classification of galaxies, and how the discovery of galaxies opened up the cosmic distance scale. 

Dave Eicher is Editor-in-Chief of Astronomy Magazine, where he has been a staff member for 38 years. He was founder and editor of Deep Sky Magazine, and has written 25 books on science and history. He is a board member of the Starmus Festival and of Lowell Observatory, and has been recognized with the minor planet designation 3617 Eicher.