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Dr. Jeremy Heyl discusses ‘The Multiwavelength Sky’ at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre (Trail and Medusa, Sechelt) at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 9. This presentation by the Sunshine Coast Chapter of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada will explain the most extreme objects in the universe since the Big Bang. Dr. Heyl is a professor at the University of British Columbia and a Canada Research Chair.
In “The Multiwavelength Sky,” Dr. Heyl explains how photons of different energies give astrophysicists new insights about star formation, supernovae explosions, neutron stars and black holes. Dr. Heyl’s research focuses on high-energy astrophysics, specifically neutron stars and black holes in our Galaxy, the Milky Way. The launch of the Chandra X-ray telescope in 1999 has opened a new vista onto the Universe. Some of its most beautiful pictures and interesting discoveries have concerned neutron stars and black holes. These remnants of supernovae explosions are the most extreme objects in the universe since the Big Bang. Astrophysicists think that they provide the power behind quasars and gamma-ray bursts, the brightest objects in the recent universe.
Check out the Sunshine Coast RASC site at: http://www.coastastronomy.ca/ for information on club activi
ties and upcoming events.
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