One Universe: Uncertainty and Tension in Astronomy | Professor Serena Kim

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🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This lecture was given on July 13th, 2023, at the "Thomistic Philosophy & Natural Science Symposium" at the Dominican House of Studies. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: Dr. Serena Kim is an Associate Research Professor and Associate Astronomer at Steward Observatory of the University of Arizona. Dr. Kim's recent research includes star formation in the "H II" region to investigate whether or not initial mass function and circumstellar disk evolution are affected by the star forming environment. She has also recently conducted research on debris disks around sun-like stars to study whether our solar system is common or rare. Kim focuses on multi-wavelength observational studies of star forming regions using both ground-based and space telescopes. Star forming regions Kim is working on are young clusters where the triggered mode of star formation is suggested. Kim is a member of the Spitzer Legacy program Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems. She has led and participated in various projects including Kuiper-Belt analogs around sun-like stars.

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0:26.5	So thank you for having me here, and I've been really greatly enjoying this meeting so
0:31.3	far, and I hope I can add some more kind of fun for you today.
0:35.4	So I have a lot of slides compared to all other talks and I
0:39.3	will take full advantage of being an astronomer, wonderful images. So first one is not
0:45.4	astronomical image. It's a Dominic. It's one of our favorite image. We actually
0:51.3	had that one in my kitchen. I see him every day. So now I'm going to talk about
0:58.0	uncertainty and tension in astronomy, which, and I will actually jump over at least before
1:05.0	kind of topics. So if I'm going too fast, please slow me down. And if you have a question that really bothers you,
1:13.6	just raise your hand, then there will be okay.
1:16.6	So here, I would like to show you one of the recent JWSD image.
1:23.6	You're going all the way.
1:26.6	It's the series program. It's a James Webb image. You're going to the way. It's the series program.
1:28.3	It's a James Webb image.
1:30.3	You're going to see about 5,000 galaxies.
1:33.3	And you're zooming in to far, far away.
1:38.3	Now you're going to see all different kind of galaxies.
1:42.3	They're all galaxies.
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