Breaking the Solar System (and Other Ways Simulations Help Us Understand Our Universe)


Saturday, 06 March 2021 9:30 a.m. — 11:30 a.m. MST

Online event

Teen Astronomy Café
Christine O’Donnell and Rachel Smullen (Arizona State University and Los Alamos National Laboratory (respectively))
Website URL: https://noirlab.edu/public/products/elec-posters/elec-poster102/

At the Teen Astronomy Cafés, high school students explore the birth and death of stars, killer asteroids, exoplanets, colliding galaxies, gravitational lenses, the structure of the universe, dark energy, dark matter and more in an effort to inspire them in STEM! They meet with astronomers; hear the latest news; try computer programs astronomers use; work with actual data! Sign up is at teenastronomycafe.org.