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Date: Sunday, March 20, 2016
Location: Ohio Union U.S. Bank Conference Theater
Time: 3-4 p.m.
Host: College of Arts and Sciences
Reception following the lecture in the Ohio Union Ohio Staters Traditions Room (4-5 p.m.)
Todd Thompson, professor, astronomy, lectures on “The Fantastic Forge: Supernovae and the Origin of the Elements.”
Thompson describes the grand pageant of stellar death and transfiguration caused by supernovae — exploding massive stars and tremendous thermonuclear detonations of white dwarfs — that partially replenish galaxies with raw materials for future star formation. We owe our existence to the elements they provided: carbon, oxygen and iron.
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