WIDEN: On Birth 4:00–6:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Grad Room at Graduate House, 66 Harbord St. RSVP on Facebook All welcome. No advance registration required. Presentations: The Birth of Stars, Planets and the Origins of Life Dennis Duffin (Astrophysics) How are stars born? When and how do they make the planets we see in […]

Portraits of Planets in Other Solar Systems Bryce Croll, Astronomy Over 300 planets have been discovered to date in solar systems other than our own. The characteristics of these planets have been odder and more diverse than our simple theories suggested and that we could even imagine in our wildest dreams. In the past 15 […]