Wednesday 8 November at 19:00
Josef Borg
Institute of Space Sciences and Astronomy (ISSA), University of Malta
Every time we raise our gaze to the night sky, the distant past of the fabric of the cosmos stares back at us in all its glory. Due to the immense distances between us and the rest of the wonders in the universe, light from such distant sources takes a long time to reach us here on Earth, giving us a peek at their past.
In our winter night skies, the Orion constellation looms clearly to the south. Within the region of this constellation lies one of the brightest nebulae visible from Earth, the Orion nebula. This region of gas and dust is the birthing place of hundreds of stars, located around 1,400 light years away from Earth.
Turning our gaze North, the Andromeda galaxy (the nearest major galaxy near the Milky Way) can be seen even with the naked eye from a dark sky location, and at its centre, a supermassive black hole holds enough gravity to keep Andromeda’s one trillion stars circling around it.
Learn about a star’s life starting from the birth all the way to their various possible ends, and observe these astonishing constellations during this Cafe Sci talk held by Josef Borg.
Poster thanks to Samuel Ciantar
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Malta Café Scientifique thanks the STEAM project funded by the Erasmus+ Key Action 2 Strategic Partnership, Spazju Kreattiv for hosting this event, the University of Malta, and Malta Chamber of Scientists