Free astronomy talk at Emory - Seeing the Stars Up Close

As part of the annual Georgia Regional Astronomers Meeting, there is a public talk, observing session and planetarium show on Friday, November 7th:

• 6 PM Keynote, Room E208, Maths & Sciences building:

Seeing the Stars Up-Close with the CHARA Array - Dr. Jeremy Jones, Georgia State University 

For most telescopes, all but a very small number of stars are just pinpricks of light. We can learn a lot from them when we measure their emission at different wavelengths or measure how their output changes over time, but at the end of the day, they're still just point sources. Using Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array, we are able to zoom in and see the surfaces of nearby stars and their environments. In this talk, I will discuss how we're able to achieve such high resolution and show off some of my favorite CHARA images from the last few years. 

• 7:15-8:30 PM Observatory Viewing, MSC Rooftop (weather-permitting)

• 7:20 PM & 7:50 PM Planetarium Shows, MSC E300

Learn more:  https://physics.emory.edu/news/gram2025.html