Virtual lecture: Babelsberg Starry Night on 20th March 2025
Artist’s impression of a binary star system with a disc of dust and gas surrounding it.
Credit: ESO/L. CalçadaThe next talk of the Virtual Babelsberg Starry Nights of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) on the topic "Stars in the Computer tomograph" (German) by Dr. Axel Schwope will be broadcast on the YouTube channel “Urknall, Weltall und das Leben” (Big Bang, Universe and Life) from Thursday, 20.03.2025.
Dr Axel Schwope's lecture on ‘Stars in the computer tomograph’ from the virtual Babelsberg Starry Nights series will be online on Thursday at 8 pm. Tomography is a widely used method of analysis in medicine. A rotating detector takes sectional images which are then used to reconstruct the original image. This allows completely new insights into the interior of the body. Especially interesting is the fact that stars can also be studied using the same method. In this lecture, the methodology is described and applied to very close binary stars. Fascinatingly, we then ‘see’ gas discs, gas streams and half stars.
Usually on the 3rd Thursday of each month, starting at 8 p.m., the lectures of the Babelsberg Starry Nights become available at
https://www.aip.de/babelsberger-sternennaechte
and via the YouTube channels "Urknall, Weltall und das Leben" (Big Bang, Universe and Life) and "videowissen" and can be viewed afterwards at any time.
Artist’s impression of a binary star system with a disc of dust and gas surrounding it.
Credit: ESO/L. CalçadaThe next talk of the Virtual Babelsberg Starry Nights of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) on the topic "Stars in the Computer tomograph" (German) by Dr. Axel Schwope will be broadcast on the YouTube channel “Urknall, Weltall und das Leben” (Big Bang, Universe and Life) from Thursday, 20.03.2025.
Dr Axel Schwope's lecture on ‘Stars in the computer tomograph’ from the virtual Babelsberg Starry Nights series will be online on Thursday at 8 pm. Tomography is a widely used method of analysis in medicine. A rotating detector takes sectional images which are then used to reconstruct the original image. This allows completely new insights into the interior of the body. Especially interesting is the fact that stars can also be studied using the same method. In this lecture, the methodology is described and applied to very close binary stars. Fascinatingly, we then ‘see’ gas discs, gas streams and half stars.
Usually on the 3rd Thursday of each month, starting at 8 p.m., the lectures of the Babelsberg Starry Nights become available at
https://www.aip.de/babelsberger-sternennaechte
and via the YouTube channels "Urknall, Weltall und das Leben" (Big Bang, Universe and Life) and "videowissen" and can be viewed afterwards at any time.
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Artist’s impression of a binary star system with a disc of dust and gas surrounding it.
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