THE UNIVERSE on a GRAND SCALE

Workshops

Event Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Start Time: 7:30 pm

Fee: $5 for Nature Manitoba members, $10 for non-members (students: $3 for members, $5 for non-members).

Instructor: Jennifer West, Astronomy Instructor at the University of Manitoba

Location: Kelvin High School, Room 31

In this workshop, I will present an overview of the kinds of objects that make up our universe: asteroids, planets, stars, galaxies and beyond. I will also try to give participants a sense of the enormous distances involved. The scale of our universe is truly mind-boggling!