Cosmic Extremes: From Giant Stars to Supermassive Black Holes
Schedule
Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm
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95 Oak Street, Glastonbury, CT, United States, Connecticut 06033 | Glastonbury, CT
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The universe is home to objects so massive, so powerful, and so strange that they push the limits of what we can imagine. In this collection of four animated planetarium shorts, we journey to the extremes of the cosmos—from stars so enormous they could swallow our entire solar system, to black holes that devour everything in their path, to the blazing quasars that outshine entire galaxies, to the impossibly dense remnants of dead stars where a single teaspoon weighs more than a mountain. Get ready to discover the titans of the universe. The presentation opens with an immersive live tour of tonight’s sky—an engaging experience that is always changing—brought to life by Digistar 7.
This work was supported by a grant from the Simons Foundation (MP-SCMPS-00001470). Special thanks to the Simons Collaboration on Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources (SCEECS) and Illinois State University.
https://kurzgesagt.org/
The material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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