Most stars en d their lives in brilliant explosions known as supernova. These massive bur sts briefly outshine all the light from the galaxy wherein they occur. The past 20 years have been a “boom” period for supernovae with vast amounts of time and effort being invested in these objects. Not only are they importa nt for understanding the life of stars, but they can be used use as cosmolo gical probes to study what the Universe is made of and how it is growing. T his use has shown that the Universe is accelerating in its expansion, the s ubject of the 2011 Nobel Prize, and is being caused by dark energy which wi ll cause the end of the Universe. I will show how our understanding of thes e objects has been revolutionized using new techniques including the Kepler Space Telescope and Hubble, and now with TESS and JWST and what this means for the Universe.
Brad Tucker is an Astrophys
icist/Cosmologist at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mt.
Stromlo Observatory and the National Centre for the Public Awareness of Sc
ience, at the Australian National University.
Brad received Bachelor’
s degrees in Physics, Philosophy, and Theology from the University of Notre
Dame and a PhD in Astrophysics and Cosmology from Mt. Stromlo Observatory
at the ANU. He’s leading programs using the NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope a
nd TESS to understand why and how stars blow up. He’s also building a netwo
rk of ultraviolet telescopes in the upper atmosphere, and a search to find
Planet 9.
Brad frequently gives talks to school groups and the public
about Astronomy and has regular segments on various radio and TV stations.
He has also developed a series of Astronomy coins with the Royal Australian
Mint, consulted on science fiction movies, and has been featured in TV spe
cials. He is currently in the process of writing his first popular book and
has developed an online Astronomy course.
Note: This will be an online presentation, but members and guests are invit ed to join us at the Green Point Observatory to view on the big screen and engage in discussions over supper.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Most stars en d their lives in brilliant explosions known as supernova. These massive bur sts briefly outshine all the light from the galaxy wherein they occur. The past 20 years have been a “boom” period for supernovae with vast amounts of time and effort being invested in these objects. Not only are they importa nt for understanding the life of stars, but they can be used use as cosmolo gical probes to study what the Universe is made of and how it is growing. T his use has shown that the Universe is accelerating in its expansion, the s ubject of the 2011 Nobel Prize, and is being caused by dark energy which wi ll cause the end of the Universe. I will show how our understanding of thes e objects has been revolutionized using new techniques including the Kepler Space Telescope and Hubble, and now with TESS and JWST and what this means for the Universe.
Brad Tu
cker is an Astrophysicist/Cosmologist at the Research School of Astronomy a
nd Astrophysics, Mt. Stromlo Observatory and the National Centre for the Pu
blic Awareness of Science, at the Australian National University.
Bra
d received Bachelor’s degrees in Physics, Philosophy, and Theology from the
University of Notre Dame and a PhD in Astrophysics and Cosmology from Mt.
Stromlo Observatory at the ANU. He’s leading programs using the NASA’s Kepl
er Space Telescope and TESS to understand why and how stars blow up. He’s a
lso building a network of ultraviolet telescopes in the upper atmosphere, a
nd a search to find Planet 9.
Brad frequently gives talks to school gr
oups and the public about Astronomy and has regular segments on various rad
io and TV stations. He has also developed a series of Astronomy coins with
the Royal Australian Mint, consulted on science fiction movies, and has bee
n featured in TV specials. He is currently in the process of writing his fi
rst popular book and has developed an online Astronomy course.
Note: This will be an online presentation, but members and guests are invited to join us at the Green Point Observatory to view on the big screen and engage in discussions over supper.
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