Speaker Series: Astrophysics at the EcoTarium
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Speaker: Paul Green, Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
June 14, 2025
5:00 – 5:40 pm
Masquerading as Giants
Stars are born, live, and die, just like us. The Sun will one day begin to run out of fuel, swell into a red giant star, and then essentially disappear. Dr. Green will talk about thousands of stars we have recently discovered that look like giants at first glance, but turn out to be their “widows”.
Paul Green is a Ph.D. astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA. He has worked for decades on mission planning and science policy for NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. His research focuses on supermassive black holes and exotic binary stars.
Tickets & Important Information
Time: Second Saturday of every month, 5:00 pm.
Duration: Approximately 40 minutes
Cost: $6 for members, $7 for non-members (per person). General museum admission will not be charged for members or guests arriving after 4:30 pm on Speaker Series days.
Location: Alden Planetarium
Age Range: All ages are welcome. Recommended 15+
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