Speaker's Night: "From dust grains to stars and shots in the Dark."

Speaker: Parisa Nozari, MSc Candidate at Queen's University, Canada

Star formation is incredibly inefficient. Compared to the available amount of gas in molecular clouds, only a few percent of the cloud forms stars.

For example, in our home galaxy, the Milky Way, new stars are seen to form at a rate of only a few solar masses per year, which is surprisingly low.

In this talk, I will talk about how dust is created, grows, and destroyed in the interstellar medium (ISM).

Understanding the size and evolution of dust grains in ISM is significant in answering why star formation is a very inefficient process in the universe.

I will also give some tips for amateur astrophotography from my own recent endeavours.

Who can attend: Everyone
Fee: Free
Registration: Not required
Location: Online. https://www.youtube.com/rasctoronto/live
Organized by: RASC, Toronto Centre, York University Department of Physics & Astronomy