Astronomy Lecture

Event Date: Monday, March 16, 2015
Event Category: Onsite Events (cooking, lectures, etc.)

imgAstronomy Lecture
Star Clusters presented by Ken Van Lew
Monday, March 16, 9 a.m., SCB, $5 pp
Open Seating Theater Style

 
Ken Van Lew will give a lecture on how stars tend to be gregarious. Although there are a few free-floating stars that don’t even belong to a galaxy, most stars do orbit a galaxy center.  Globular clusters are composed of older yellow stars that orbit above and below the halo of the Milky Way. Galactic clusters are stars that group together and orbit only in the plane of the Milky Way disk.