East Brunswick Astronomy Club with Lecture (Hybrid)

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The East Brunswick Astronony Club presents, "Pulsars: Enigmatic Cosmic Lighthouses" with Evan Lewis

Join Evan Lewis, a graduate student at West Virginia University for a lecture on pulsars. Pulsars are incredibly dense neutron stars formed from the collapsed cores of massive stars after supernova explosions. A single teaspoon of their material would weigh as much as Mount Everest, and they often rotate several times per second—some even hundreds of times! They also have magnetic fields far stronger than anything humans can create. Pulsars emit beams of radio waves from their poles, and as they spin, these beams sweep across space like a cosmic lighthouse. Because their pulses are so regular, pulsars can be used as precise cosmic clocks, rivaling the best human-made timekeepers.

Evan Lewis is a sixth-year graduate student at West Virginia University, where he uses radio telescopes to take observations of pulsars. He spent over a year working in the WVU Planetarium, where he gave weekly public presentations as well as tours for school field trips and other groups.

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The East Brunswick Astronomy Club (EBAC) was founded with the mission of encouraging and promoting an interest in astronomy and space science throughout East Brunswick and beyond. EBAC meets once a month at the East Brunswick Public Library and meetings typically include a short lecture, open discussion, and telescope observing.

This group is open to adults, teens, and families with children ages 12 and younger.