2025 Townsend Lecture Sept 27th: Hellish Worlds
Join RASC Montreal for our annual Keynote Townsend Public Lecture, featuring Dr. Lisa Dang from the University of Waterloo – a JWST exoplanet research scientist. In the last few decades, astronomers have discovered a rich diversity of planets vastly different from those residing in the Solar System. Among them a particularly intriguing type of planets discovered are lava worlds – scorching hot rocky planets but unlike the Earth these exoplanets are orbiting extremely close to their parent star and are blasted with irradiation levels that could sustain a magma ocean at the surface. Dr. Dang will share how we find these searing hot worlds, how we can study them and what you could experience if you were to visit a lava world.
The Townsend Event will be held on Sat, Sept 27th at John Abbott College in Penfield P-204 starting at 7:30pm EDT. Enjoy telescope observing on the JAC Oval after the event if weather allows.
Register at: https://bit.ly/Townsend2025
