Club McKenzie: Watching Dying Stars Transform into Butterflies (and Other Tales of Stellar Metamorphosis)
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Join Dr. Joel Kastner as he shares the first results from our comprehensive, near-UV-to-near-IR Hubble Space Telescope imaging programs targeting two particularly well-studied planetary nebulae (one commonly known as The Butterfly).
Dr. Kastner will describe how the combination of HST and other tools (e.g., radio molecular line imaging spectroscopy) are helping us to understand the processes involved in the disintegration of dying stars and the re-integration of this "star stuff" into subsequent generations of stars and planetary systems.
Joel Kastner (Ph.D. in Astronomy, UCLA 1990) is a Professor on the faculty of Rochester Institute of Technology's Center for Imaging Science and School of Physics & Astronomy. He was the founding Director of RIT's Laboratory for Multiwavelength Astrophysics. Prior to his two decades at RIT, Kastner spent almost a decade at MIT, first as Bantrell Postdoc at MIT Haystack Radio Observatory and then as staff scientist with MIT's side of the Chandra (then AXAF) X-ray Science Center. His research interests lie in the early and late stages of stellar evolution -- i.e., the formative stages of stars and planetary systems, and their death throes. He has conducted observations of forming and dying stars and stellar systems across a broad swath of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio to X-rays. Kastner is lead author or co-author of more than 170 refereed journal articles that have garnered nearly 7000 citations; he has led or co-organized more than two dozen astronomical symposia and conferences. He was among the original group of (roughly 230) astronomers named as "Legacy" Fellows of the American Astronomical Society in 2020, and presently serves as Chair of the AAS Committee on Employment.
If you have any questions, please contact Kelly Redder at kelly.redder@rit.edu.
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Event Snapshot
When and Where
March 10, 2021
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Room/Location: Zoom Videoconferencing
Who
Open to the Public
Interpreter Requested?
No
Topics
alumni
imaging science