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Join us for our December lecture in our 2024-25 AAA Lecture Series with speaker Dr. Jane Huang, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University. The topic will be: Peering into the birthplace of planets.
Astronomers have discovered thousands of planets outside our Solar System. Many of these have properties unlike those of our own Solar System. To understand how planets arise and why they have such different properties, we need to study the protoplanetary disks of gas, dust, and ice in which they are born. I will provide an overview of what state-of-the-art telescopes have revealed about planet formation in recent years.
The Amateur Astronomers Association Lecture Series is held on the second Tuesday of each month, from October–May, beginning at 7:00 PM Eastern time.
Lectures are free and open to the public, but registration via Zoom is required.
Jane Huang is an assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia University. She received her BS in chemistry from University of Chicago and PhD in astronomy from Harvard University. Before arriving at Columbia, she spent several years at University of Michigan as a postdoctoral fellow.
