Astronomy on Tap Black Warrior Basin: Don’t Panic (Yet): The Earth’s Not-Quite-Inevitable Demise

Join us at Druid City Brewing Company on April 28th at 7:00pm for Astronomy on Tap! Listen to fascinating astronomy talks, play trivia to win out-of-this-world prizes, and of course, enjoy Druid City brews on tap.

Between the boiling off of our oceans to the expansion of the Sun’s surface to the size of Earth’s orbit, the future of our planet isn’t looking bright (or rather is looking too bright, to be precise). But recent discoveries are suggesting the end of our Sun’s life might not be quite as bad for our planet as we previously thought, and there might even be an opportunity for life to reestablish itself around the remnant white dwarf the Sun will leave behind billions of years into the future. So don’t panic…at least not yet, as Prof. Sam Grunblatt explains recent twists in the canonical story of late-stage planetary evolution that might delay or even prevent what was long thought to be the inevitable demise of our planet.

Astronomy on Tap is a FREE series of events aimed at making the latest research in astronomy and space accessible to the public with fun talks, games, and plenty of time for mingling between local astronomers and guests.