Exploration: Exploring Stellar Siblings with Alison Sills
Our star, the Sun, is a very lonely object. Most stars were formed in groups or clusters, and often they have a binary companion.
Join us as Dr. Alison Sills describes what we have learned about these systems in other parts of the Galaxy, how we have learned about them, and what our night sky would look like if our Sun had kept in touch with its stellar siblings.
Come explore the night sky with us!
About our speaker: Dr. Alison Sills, Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at McMaster University, studies weird stars in unusual places. The stars that interest her have had a strange encounter during their life, such as a collision with another star or an interaction with their binary companion. These events happen more often in dense stellar clusters. Dr. Sills uses a variety of computational tools to model the formation and evolution of these clusters and their stellar populations. She has published over 120 research papers with over 5000 citations and is involved in the astronomical community at the national and international level.
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