Date and time
Monday, April 15 · 7 – 8:30pm PDT

Location
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Rothenberg Hall 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, CA 91108

About this event
1 hour 30 minutes

Radio astronomy began by accident. Since the 1930s, when American physicist Karl Jansky stumbled upon a radio hiss coming from the center of the Milky Way, radio light has revealed a universe full of surprises: black holes billions of light-years away, rapidly spinning neutron stars, and remnant light from the primordial universe (to name a few). Allison Matthews will recount the origins and history of radio astronomy, its current puzzles, and future promises.

Matthews is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carnegie Science Observatories. She combines radio observations of galaxies with optical and infrared imaging and spectroscopy to understand when – and over what time – most of the stars in our universe formed.

Allison Matthews – Carnegie Science Postdoctoral Fellow

Top Image Credit: I. Heywood, SARAO.

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WELCOME BACK! WE’RE DELIGHTED TO PRESENT THE 22ND SEASON OF TALKS HIGHLIGHTING THE MOST EXCITING DISCOVERIES IN TODAY’S GOLDEN AGE OF ASTRONOMY.

All Lectures will be held in the Rothenberg Auditorium at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; the program begins with a brief musical performance at 7:00 p.m.; followed by the Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are free, but reservations are required.

PLEASE NOTE: PER THE HUNTINGTON AND CARNEGIE’S HEALTH AND SAFETY PROTOCOLS, COVID-19 VACCINATIONS ARE STRONGLY RECOMMENDED. MASKS ARE OPTIONAL OUTDOORS AND STRONGLY RECOMMENDED INDOORS BUT NOT REQUIRED. PLEASE DO NOT ATTEND IF YOU HAVE ANY SYMPTOMS CONSISTENT WITH COVID.

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