Wednesday, July 23, 2014 – 20:00 to 22:00 ET
Special Event
Speaker: Prof Bob Benjamin (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
A Three-Dimensional View of the Milky Way
Location: Ellis Hall Auditorium, Queen’s University
Join us for the Queen’s University Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy’s annual Cave Lecture in Astronomy. Come see nurseries of newly born stars and veils of glowing dust, recently revealed by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Hear how Spitzer’s maps of our Milky Way Galaxy exposed its true spiral structure and is helping us find the edge of our home galaxy!