Free Astronomy Lecture: “Neutron Stars and Pulsars: The Inside Story | Presidio
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Observation Post at the Presidio | 211 Lincoln Boulevard, San Francisco, CA
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CANCELED: Free Astronomy Lecture | Castro
Once monthly, the SFAA hosts distinguished guest speakers who are leaders in the fields of astronomy, physics and related disciplines and they present to SFAA Members the latest developments from cutting-edge scientific programs.
Held in the Randall Museum Theater on the third Wednesday of every month, come early for coffee and a light snack at 7:30 PM followed by the general meeting at 7:45 PM. The lecture begins at 8:00 PM.
– Updated 6/26/19 – Event info last checked via website
Predicted in the 1930s and discovered in the 1960s by X-ray and radio astronomers, neutron stars are now known to be the typical result of the evolution of a massive star. There should be nearly of a billion of them in our galaxy alone. Neutron stars have roughly ten km radii and can spin six hundred times in a second. They can also have magnetic fields over a million billion times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field. A small fraction of these neutron stars create bright radio emission and they can be observed as periodic radio pulses and are called radio pulsars. Radio pulsars have turned out to be superb cosmic laboratories and to provide tools to
explore gravity and its radiation.
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Cost: FREE
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