This is Dr. Alan Calder, of Stony Brook University who spoke at our meeting tonight. His topic involved some of his recent research on supernovae, which are stars that explode at the end of their lives. Our sun will not do that, you will be thrilled to know, but we won't be around anyhow. Dr. Calder was using some of the latest data from the Webb Space Telescope, and he also uses super-computers to model the different theories of what happens during these explosions. He is pointing out one such supernova in this image of a galaxy. He is so busy and yet he took time off to come speak to us, as he does almost every year which we really appreciate. We are so lucky that he really enjoys these outreach sessions.
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