Lowell Lectures on Astronomy: Monsters, Dwarfs, and Everything in Between April 20, 2005

Inside the nucleus of an atom, the laws of quantum mechanics successfully describe the domain of the incredibly small. Yet the same laws influence the very large, including such objects as stars. Physics enables us to study rare and distant stars, from monsters 100 times heavier than the sun, to white dwarfs no larer than Earth but more than 100,000 times more dense. The Lowell Lectures on Astronomy are presented by the Charles Hayden Planetarium in collaboration with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and are made possible through the generous funding of the Lowell Institute. Lectures are held on three consecutive Wednesday evenings in Cahners Theater at the Museum of Science. Admission is free. No reservations are necessary. General seating tickets are available first come, first served beginning at 5:45 p.m. on the evening of each lecture. Go tot he registration table in the Museum lobby. For more information, call 617-589-0273.

Featuring: Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D., Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics