Understanding the Immensity of the Cosmos

Name: Understanding the Immensity of the Cosmos
Start: 2025-03-08T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 333 Thomas More Pkwy, Crestview Hills, KY, United States, Kentucky 41017

Schedule

Sat, 08 Mar, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

333 Thomas More Pkwy, Crestview Hills, KY, United States, Kentucky 41017 | Crestview Hills, KY

This is the second talk of the Spring semester's Astronomy Public Lecture Series. The lecture will begin at 7:00p in Steigerwald Hall, and will be followed by observations at the TMU Observatory (weather permitting).
Free and open to the public -- no RSVP necessary.
Astronomers often discuss distances in lightyears, the distance light travels in a year. In fact, one lightyear is a whopping six trillion miles or so, or about ten-thousand-trillion yards. That’s one followed by 16 zeroes! What do such large numbers even mean and how can we get a more intuitive feel for the immensity of the universe? In this talk, we will put cosmic scales into more “down-to-Earth” terms.