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Space Drafts (Astronomy on Tap Tucson)
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✨ A public talk series hosted at Zerai’s International Bar with stargazing, trivia, and beer in Tucson, AZ ✨ part of the international network of @astronomyontap.bsky.social ✨
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Space Drafts #111 is 7:30p this Wed. @ Zerai's Intl Bar (2725 E Broadway Blvd, Tucson, AZ)! We have UA grad students Anna Taylor, on how exoplanets lose their atmospheres, and Maria Mutz, on why neutron stars are so cool! If you can't make it in person we are also streaming at bit.ly/SpaceDrafts111.
November 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Space Drafts returns with show 109 Wed. Sept. @ 7:30pm @ Zerai’s International Bar (note the change in day and location!). On tap we have grad student Sophie Lebowitz talking about monster black holes and postdocs Jackie Champagne & Danny Krolikowski giving us an update on astronomy in the news!
Flyer for Space Drafts 109. On the left is a headshot of Sophie Lebowitz on top of a picture of a massive black hole with a dusty torus. On the right is an image of a stack of newspapers with the extended Astronomy in the News Round-up title.
September 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Space Drafts 107 is coming your way on May 20! 7:30pm AZ time at Borderlands Brewing's downtown location and bit.ly/SpaceDrafts107! Steward astronomers Dr. Koushik Sen and Vikram Manikantan (@vikmani.bsky.social) will be talking about eclipsing binary stars and black holes!
Advertisement for Space Drafts 107. The Space Drafts logo is in the center with talk and speaker information on the sides. On the left is an image of a binary star system and the corresponding brightness of the system as a function of time, an image of Koushik Sen, the speaker's name, and the talk title "Batman and Eclipsing Binaries." On the right are several artist's impressions of black holes, each surrounded by an orange disk, an image of Vikram Manikantan, the speaker's name, and the talk title "A Brief History (and Future) of Black Holes."
May 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Space Drafts #105 is happening TONIGHT (4/15) at 7:30pm Tucson time at Borderlands Brewing Downtown and bit.ly/SpaceDrafts106. Dr. Laura Rogers (@astroloz.bsky.social) from NSF NOIRLab will be talking about dead planets around dead stars and then we have trivia!
A picture of Laura Rogers next to the Space Drafts #106 logo and underneath Laura's talk title: "Dead Planets Around Dead Stars".
April 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Space Drafts #104 is happening next Tuesday (Feb. 18) at 7:30p Tucson time at Borderlands Brewing Downtown and bit.ly/SpaceDrafts104. Aldana Grichener will be teaching us how to make gold out of neutrons and Haowen Zhang will be telling us about black holes near and far!
Left: A picture of Aldana Grichener on top of an artistic rendition of a binary neutron star merger with the title "Celestial Alchemy: Turning Neutrons into Gold". Right: A picture of Haowen Zhang on top of a picture of background objects being gravitationally lensed by numerous foreground black holes with the title "Too Many Black Holes Near and Far!!!".
February 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Space Drafts #103 is happening tonight (1/21) at 7:30p Tucson time at Borderlands Brewing Downtown and bit.ly/SpaceDrafts103. @whatamergerjr.bsky.social will be pulling back the curtain on radio telescopes and Meredith Stone will give us a crash course on the last century of extragalactic astronomy!
Advertisement flyer for Space Drafts #103 happening tonight (1/21) at 7:30pm. Left: Picture of Jackie Champagne on top of pictures of the radio telescopes that make up the Event Horizon Telescope. Talk title: "Radio Interferometry: Whose Baseline is it Anyway?" Right: Picture of Meredith Stone on top of a spiral galaxy with a party hat. Talk title: "100 (Standard) Candles: A Century of Extragalactic Astronomy"
January 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Space Drafts #102 is coming your way next Tuesday (Tomorrow!) at 7:30pm Tucson time at Borderlands Brewing Downtown! On tap we have @jliberman.bsky.social talking about hunting for alien worlds, and @jenivevep.bsky.social telling us about the search for transient objects with Rubin Observatory!
"The Search for Alien Worlds From Earth's Largest Telescopes" by Josh Liberman and "Gotta Catch 'em All! Completing the Transient Pokedex with the Rubin Observatory" by Jeniveve Pearson.
December 17, 2024 at 2:38 AM