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Rockland Astronomy Club is home to some of the best lectures in the Northeast region regarding Astronomy and Space. Bringing in renowned and established guests from all around, RLS is a great way to learn something new about the world of astronomy.
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February 21, 2025
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March 1, 2025
The Cosmic History of Stellar Birth
Dr. Mordecai-Mark Mac Low
Curator, Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC; Adjunct Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University.
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Dr. Mordecai-Mark Mac Low's work focuses on understanding the formation of planets, stars, and galaxies. At the smallest scales, he is studying the interaction of planets with their natal circumstellar disks. At scales of less than one light year, he has simulated the behavior of self-gravitating, supersonic, magnetized turbulence to understand the formation of the dense cloud cores in which protostars are observed.
At scales of hundreds to thousands of light years, he is studying the influence of multiple supernova explosions on interstellar gas, and how clouds of star-forming molecular gas form. Finally, at the galactic scale of tens of thousands of light years, he studies the large-scale formation of stars in galaxies.
Dr. Mac Low serves as an advisor for the HPC facilities development and expansion at the American Museum of Natural History. His research group relies on computational modeling using gas dynamical and magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations to study the formation of planets, and stars, and the structure of the interstellar gas, with applications to galactic winds and galaxy formation.
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