Science Utah Lecture Series: Discovering the Milky Way, a Modern Look at our Home Galaxy

Science Utah Lecture Series

Discovering the Milky Way, a Modern Look at our Home Galaxy
Presented by Rachel McClure

Recent and upcoming surveys are offering an incredible new, detailed view of our galactic home, the Milky Way galaxy. New missions are cataloging the star formation history, unveiling a rich history of accretion and dynamical interactions with neighbors, and enabling the creation of a more complete, richer picture of our home as we study it from the inside-out. In this talk, we will take a look at some of these new results and how they reveal our exciting Galactic history.

RACHEL LEE MCCLURE — Rachel is new faculty up at Weber State University in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. In addition to her teaching load, on campus she coordinates with the student workers of Ott Planetarium to serve both public and institutional astronomy outreach needs and manages the on-campus research and public-focused telescope fleet. Her research interests center on disk-galaxy evolution processes, using both large computational simulations and targeted galaxy observations. Her thesis was an exploration of the formation and evolution of bars in disk galaxies throughout the universe where she provided new constraints on classical-pseudobulge evolution in the presence of a stellar bar. Her ongoing work aims to expand these constraints to conditions of disk galaxies from early in the history of the universe to connect galactic bar evolution across cosmological time.

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