News Release

ESCC Bishop Campus

Astronomy Speaker Series Continues at Cerro Coso

November 1, 2007

Lisa Wei from University of California, Berkeley and the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy (CARMA) near Big Pine, CA will be giving a talk at Cerro Coso Community College, Eastern Sierra College Center - Bishop Campus. The College Campus is located at 4090 W. Line St. in Bishop. The talk is slated for 4 pm., on Tuesday, November 13, in Room 176. The talk is entitled is titled "Evolution of Galaxies within the Hubble Sequence." The College is co-hosting this speaker se

Edwin Hubble was the first astronomer to classify galaxies, dividing them into two distinct types - elliptical galaxies, and spiral galaxies, and placed them on the "Hubble Tuning Fork." Hubble believed that all galaxies started out as ellipticals, and evolved into spirals as time passed. Though we know that this is not exactly the case today, how these galaxies came to be and the exact relationship between ellipticals and spirals is still unclear. Lisa Wei will discuss simulations and observations of elliptical and spiral galaxies that may be evolving, and what we can learn from them.

This talk is formatted for a general audience and all students and community members are invited to attend.

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Joann Handeland, Director of Public Information (760) 384-6230