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March 5, 2002

‘NIGHT WITH THE STARS’ PLANNED MARCH 20

Treasure Valley residents will have the opportunity to look through powerful telescopes at the night sky during “A Night With the Stars” on March 20 at Boise State University.

Pleiades. Open cluster can easily be seen with naked eye in constellation of Taurus the Bull, about 375 light years away. Their blue glow is a reflection nebula created as some of the star's radiation scatters off dust grains in vicinity.

The event, sponsored by The Black Holez (cq), Boise State’s astronomy club, will be held from 7-11 p.m. on the roof of the Education building on the university campus. To get to the roof, take the elevator to the 7th floor and take the stairs to the roof.

Club members and faculty will be on hand during “A Night With the Stars” to answer questions and offer assistance. Nebulas, binary star systems and planets should be visible. If inclement weather forces cancellation of the event, a notice will be placed on the front doors of the Education building earlier that evening.

Admission is $1 for any student with an ID card and for Boise State faculty and staff, and $2 general, at the door. For more information, call 426-2356.

Hover over the images below for more information, (PC's only). Click on Image to download.

Andromeda. Spiral Galaxy, the only visible galaxy to the naked eye from Earh's N. Hemisphere. Gravitationally bound to the Milky Way. Supernova. Sombrero Galaxy. Spiral galaxy in Virgo is nearly edge on to our Earth-based view. Spectroscopic observations indicate that a billion solar-mass black hole is located at center of galaxy. Rosette Nebula. Near one end of a sprawling giant molecular cloud in constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn. New star formation is taking place within. Pleiades. Open cluster can easily be seen with naked eye in constellation of Taurus the Bull, about 375 light years away. Their blue glow is a reflection nebula created as some of the star's radiation scatters off dust grains in vicinity. Orion Nebula. (Detail) Eastern most star in Orion's Belt holds a variety of nebula nearby. Annular Eclipse. Composites of 5 exposures taken at sunrise in Costa Rica. Shows progress of annular eclipse of the sun that occured on Dec. 24, 1974. Black holes distort spacetime nearby. Circumpolar Stars. Taken at South Celestial pole - shows rotation of the sky. Observatory houses the Angle-Australian Telescope, one of the largest telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere. Coronal Hole. X-ray picture of the Sun. A huge coronal hole dominates the top part of the corona. Eta Carinae. Believed to be a binary star system. This Hubble Space Telescope image details the remnants of an ejection first seen in 1841, and that temporarily made this object the second brightest in the sky. Andromeda. Beyond the Milky Way lies the universe of galaxies. This image shows 100's of galaxies orbiting each other some 3.25 million light years away.

Contacts:
Tiffany Watkins
Black Holez astronomy club
331-9143

Daryl Macomb
Physics
426-2356

Media Contact:
Janelle Brown
communications and marketing
426-1790