Virtual Talk: Babelsberg Starry Night on 16th November
An illustration of an X-ray fireball on a white dwarf during a nova.
Credit: eROSITA Collaboration/Annika KreikenbohmThe next lecture of the virtual Babelsberg Starry Nights of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) on the topic "New life on old stars" will be broadcasted starting on Thursday, 16th November 2023, on the YouTube channel "Urknall, Weltall und das Leben".
On Thursday at 8 pm, Dr. Axel Schwope's lecture on the topic "New life on old stars" from the Babelsberg Starry Night series will be online.
At the end of a star's life, not much typically happens. The stellar remnant, often a so-called white dwarf, cools down and eventually becomes invisible. In close binary stars with mass overflow, however, a white dwarf can develop a second life. The matter collected by the accompanying normal star leads to some of the most remarkable phenomena in the sky, the novae, the dwarf novae and the supernovae.
Usually on the 3rd Thursday of each month, starting at 8 p.m., the lectures of the Babelsberg Starry Nights are available at
https://www.aip.de/babelsberger-sternennaechte
or via the YouTube channels "Urknall, Weltall und das Leben" (Big Bang, Universe and Life) and "videowissen" and can be viewed afterwards at any time.
An illustration of an X-ray fireball on a white dwarf during a nova.
Credit: eROSITA Collaboration/Annika KreikenbohmThe next lecture of the virtual Babelsberg Starry Nights of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) on the topic "New life on old stars" will be broadcasted starting on Thursday, 16th November 2023, on the YouTube channel "Urknall, Weltall und das Leben".
On Thursday at 8 pm, Dr. Axel Schwope's lecture on the topic "New life on old stars" from the Babelsberg Starry Night series will be online.
At the end of a star's life, not much typically happens. The stellar remnant, often a so-called white dwarf, cools down and eventually becomes invisible. In close binary stars with mass overflow, however, a white dwarf can develop a second life. The matter collected by the accompanying normal star leads to some of the most remarkable phenomena in the sky, the novae, the dwarf novae and the supernovae.
Usually on the 3rd Thursday of each month, starting at 8 p.m., the lectures of the Babelsberg Starry Nights are available at
https://www.aip.de/babelsberger-sternennaechte
or 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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An illustration of an X-ray fireball on a white dwarf during a nova.
