All skill levels are welcome!! Free donuts & science! Come for an hour, or the whole day! As you may have heard, the next major data release from the Gaia mission is coming soon! Gaia DR3 will be released on Monday, June 13th. This release includes light curves for millions of stars, low-res optical spectra for hundreds of millions of stars… and much more! Like with […]
The Astronomy on Tap this month is featuring scientists from the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona at Bickersons Brewhouse, Ballard at 8pm! First, Dr. Jeff Hall will talk about Pluto’s discovery, what’s been going on since then and its tie to the Lowell Observatory. Then, Dr. Moskovitz will discuss NASA’s DART spacecraft’s plan to crash […]
Speaker: Doug Geisler “Galactic Archeology with Bulge Globular Clusters” When: Monday, August 1st, 2022 at 12:00pm Where: PAA Building, Room A214
It’s Astro on Tap tonight! Come to Bickersons Brewhouse at 8 pm for talks by Nick Wogan (Astrobio) and Matt McQuinn talking about “Asteroid impacts, atmospheric chemistry, and RNA: A story for how life may have begun” and “How to find the most distant galaxy”.
Join us in the DiRAC Lounge (PAB 356) 3:30pm PT, Monday, September 26th A viewing party of NASA’s webcast covering the DART probe’s impact into asteroid Dimorphos! This is NASA’s first planetary defense test mission, testing how well a “kinetic impactor” can shift the trajectory of an asteroid. Don’t worry, this object is safely away from […]
Astronomy on Tap is on Wednesday (09/28) at Bickersons Brewhouse in Ballard, starting at 8pm! The first talk is going to be Rudy Garcia talking about the volcanoes on Venus, and the second talk will be from Eric Bellm and will be about where space telescopes come from. Hope to see you there! Each FREE Astronomy on Tap event features accessible, engaging […]
Please join us for two great DiRAC seminar talks on Monday, October 17th at 12:30pm in the eScience Data Studio on the 6th floor, PAB (the Seminar Room). Lunch is provided, please RSVP @Slack general channel. Fábio Rafael Herpich: “S-PLUS: a 12-bands photometric survey scanning the southern sky” Lilianne Nakazono: “S-PLUS: Improving object classification and […]
Come see Tom Wagg and Tyler Gordon TONIGHT at Astro On Tap at 8pm at Bickersons Brew House! In the first talk, Tom Wagg will talk about a new gravitational wave detector launching in 2034 called LISA, and how that’s going to revolutionize the field of astronomy! Then in the second talk, Tyler Gordon will answer the age-old question, where does […]
DiRAC All-Hands Meeting is a chance to learn more about DiRAC, current project opportunities and what different groups are working on – please join us in the eScience Meeting Room on the 6th floor. Lunch is provided, please RSVP (via @slack general channel).
Astronomy on Tap is on Wednesday (11/30) at Bickersons Brewhouse in Ballard, starting at 8pm! Trent Thomas will talk about why we should be excited about Mars and his research involving the red planet! Chester Li will talk about the search for life in the universe and the lore of “Little Green Men”!