Dr. Larry Molnar: Binary Stars

Friday, February 24, 2023
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Allendale Campus
Students

Exciting lecture on Contact Binary Stars
Fajita buffet!
Hanging out with other Astronomy enthusiasts
Bringing friends and family is encouraged.

About our speaker:

Dr. Larry Molnar, Physics and Astronomy Professor at Calvin College, is coming to speak at an open event at GVSU. Dr. Molnar has made ripples in the international Astronomy community recently, with his research focusing on contact binary stars. In the spring of 2017 Dr. Molnar, with the help of his pupils at Calvin, published a paper demonstrating ways to detect and predict luminous red novae. Since then, Dr. Molnar and his team have come ever closer to understanding contact binaries and red nova, paving a way for future direct observation of these exciting and elusive phenomena.

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Kirkhof Center Room 0058 (Thornapple)

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Astronomy Club

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This event was added to the calendar by LakerLink Registered Student Organizations (rso@gvsu.edu) on Thursday, February 9, 2023 and was last updated on Friday, February 24, 2023 at 6:01 p.m.

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