Winter Lecture Series continues March 30th

We’ll continue with the SMAS 2018 Winter Lecture Series next Friday, March 30th starting at 7:00 p.m. in the Bridger Library located in the high school.  Enter off of 11th Ave – across from Wendy’s.

The still-unsolved Physics puzzle revealed by the Great American eclipse
by Dana Longcope
Montana State University

Among the torrent of news stories about last summer’s solar eclipse was an occasional mention of the Sun’s mysteriously hot corona — a mystery dubbed “the coronal heating problem”.  I will describe how that eclipse, and those before it, have confronted us with this enduring mystery.  I will explain the problem of coronal heating and what researchers at MSU, and elsewhere, have done to shed light on the still-unknown heating mechanism.  In the end I will describe what we now know about the solution, and what remains to be learned.