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Saturday, Jul 12 2025 @ 4:00 PM 180 seats left
* Appropriate for grades 3rd - 8th ***The Hot and Energetic Universe ***uses Immersive Visualizations and real images to present achievements of modern astronomy in the discipline of High Energy Astrophysics. High-energy astrophysics studies the Universe at the extreme. High-energy astrophysics involves the study of exceedingly dynamic and energetic phenomena occurring near the most extreme celestial objects known to exist, such as black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs, and supernova remnants. The show discusses how High Energy Astrophysicists use the worlds most advanced terrestrial and orbital observatories as tools, to investigate and uncover basic principles of electromagnetic radiation, particularly x-radiation and gamma-radiation, and other natural phenomena related to High Energy Astrophysics. In the show, High Energy Astrophysicists probe hot gas in clusters of galaxies, which are the most massive objects in the universe, and hot gas accreting around supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. These radiations reveal the processes in the hot and violent universe. High energy radiation provides important information about our own galaxy, neutron stars, supernova remnants and stars like our Sun which emit copious amounts of high energy radiation. High Energy Astrophysics plays a key role in understanding the universe, and Europe plays a leading role in high energy astrophysics research. The XMM-Newton and the Integral missions are leading the exploration of the X-ray and gamma-ray universe. ESAs mission ATHENA, to be launched in 2028, will carry the most sensitive X-ray telescope ever and it will be the flagship of all high X-ray missions.
