We Are All Made From Stardust; Find Out How
and Where It Came From

Presentation: “We Are All Made From Stardust; Find Out How and Where It Came From” by Dr. Mike Adler, GJH

November 4th (Tuesday), 6 p.m., Social half-hour; please join us from 5:30-6:00 to enjoy free soft drinks and appetizers before our talk begins! And a RAFFLE!

Live at the Teton County Library & Via Zoom (online)

We are trying something new, a fundraising/membership drive raffle!

The Prize: one of Mike Adler’s celestial prints on metal of the “Fighting Dragons of Ara”. It is 24″x30″ and ready to hang (photo below does not
do it justice).

Raffle rules:

  • Must be present to win.
  • Drawing will be at 6:00 pm in the library auditorium.
  • Members receive one free ticket. One ticket per Membership.
  • Additional tickets can be purchased for $20 each.
  • You can buy/renew a Membership that night via cash, check, or Venmo (no IOU’s). This will count toward your 2026 Membership.
  • Membership costs $20 individual, $35 family, and $50 for a sustaining membership.
  • GJH board members are not eligible to participate.

All of the elements in the universe, other than Hydrogen and Helium, were made by the stars. Thus, most of what we are made of as well as much of the matter
on Earth and the other planets are made by the two generations of stars that preceded our Sun.

In this talk we will learn about how the stars were created, how they evolve during their active lives, and how they end their existence. We will do this by
focusing on medium sized stars like the Sun and stars that are 10X larger than the Sun. This will naturally lead to how all of the elements in the periodic table were created. A key aspect of this is involved in the last stage of the lives of the largest stars which result in massive explosions called supernovae. We will end the talk with a brief discussion of the strange objects which are created at the end of star’s lives like black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs. All of this will be done with pictures, diagrams, and No Math!

Helix nebula

Crab nebula with a neutron star in the middle

Topic: We Are All Made From Stardust; Find Out How and Where It Came From

Time: Tuesday, November 4th, 2025, 06:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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