.QUINCY– Knox University graduate Alexis Riggs will certainly be the showcased sound speaker at the Quincy Astronomy Group meeting beginning at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21.
Riggs’ in-person lecture is entitled “What Occurs When Stars Interact?” It will certainly deal with ruinous adjustable superstars as well as binary celebrity units which once in awhile differ in brightness because of the one-of-a-kind gravitational interactions between their stars. The talk is going to focus on the buildup of catastrophic variable units, exactly how they can be located and researched by astronomers, and how celebrities like T Coronae Borealis can easily create reoccuring as well as (relatively) foreseeable Novas that may be seen from Earth with the nude eye.The appointment will certainly be kept at John Timber Area University in room D022/D023 on the back edge, lower north end of Building D. The public is actually invited.Riggs is actually an Illinois indigenous and also current graduate of Knox University, with degrees in astrophysics as well as mathematics.
She is conducting research as a member of the MACRO Consortium, a team of trainees and also personnel coming from colleges all over the Midwest participated in joint astronomical research utilizing a co-operated robot telescope in Sonoita, Ariz. Current efforts of the group have been concentrated on checking out the interactions in between celebrities in variable binary systems.The Astronomy Club was actually created through local area amateur astronomers as well as seeks to teach, discover and extend minds concerning space and also our cosmos. Lectures or star events are actually conducted monthly.
For more details, connect with Susan Asher 217-653-5074 or asherte@yahoo.com.