CIERA Astronomy Night Out Featuring a Lecture by Professor Emeritus Dave Meyer "Exploring the Milky Way"
When:
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM CT
Where: Technological Institute, LR2, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Contact:
CIERA Astrophysics
(847) 491-8646
Group: CIERA - Annual Public Lecture Series
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Description:
Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) presents the 4th CIERA ASTRONOMY NIGHT OUT featuring Professor Emeritus Dave Meyer
• A free, keynote lecture given by CIERA astronomer, Professor Emeritus Dave Meyer
• After the lecture, engage in family astronomy activities, and look through the Dearborn Telescope (weather permitting).
• Come participate in our astronomy activities, including make your own crafted constellation to take home. We'll have CIERA astronomers ready to answer all of your spacey questions. This and much more at CIERA's Astronomy Night Out!
• Campus parking lots are free and unrestricted in the evenings.
• All are welcome! Content tailored to a general audience.
Dave Meyer
CIERA, Northwestern University
Talk Title:
Exploring the Milky Way
About this Talk: Among the many wonders of the night sky, our eyes are drawn to a diffuse band of light stretching from horizon to horizon. This "Milky Way" glows with the light of ~300 billion stars amidst vast clouds of interstellar gas and stardust. It constitutes the disk-shaped stellar backbone of the large spiral galaxy (100,000 light-years across) that is our home. In this talk, I will utilize the sharp eyes of the Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes to explore the rich tapestry of the Milky Way Galaxy through spectacular images of its stars, star clusters, and nebulae. In discussing the scientific stories behind these images, I will weave them together to examine the evolution and eventual fate of the Galaxy.
About the Presenter:
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the facilities of Kitt Peak National Observatory, Dr. Meyer specializes in the measurement of weak interstellar and extragalactic absorption lines in the optical and ultraviolet spectra of stars and quasars. Such measurements provide important information about the composition, chemistry, structure, and physical conditions of intervening gas clouds in the Milky Way and other galaxies.
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