{"id":4054,"date":"2023-04-04T14:53:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T14:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4054"},"modified":"2023-04-04T14:53:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T14:53:29","slug":"troy-faculty-and-students-discuss-big-bang-theory-stargaze-at-tas-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/04\/04\/troy-faculty-and-students-discuss-big-bang-theory-stargaze-at-tas-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"TROY faculty and students discuss Big Bang Theory, stargaze at TAS meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 For those who enjoy watching the night sky, Troy University is home to the Troy Astronomical Society (TAS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Friday, the club presented a lecture about the Big Bang Theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The TAS is a club that is a public astronomy club it&#8217;s not just for Troy University and so we have people that are coming from all over the place surrounding Troy,&#8221; said Club President Justin Robinson. &#8220;It&#8217;s just a place where people can hear what has been recently going on in space and it&#8217;s also an opportunity for people to hopefully learn about some cool topics.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New members are always welcome and meetings are open to the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I joined the Troy Astronomical Society because I was a physics major and I&#8217;m really interested in astronomy,&#8221; said member Mystic Wilkes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The club aims to show the importance of understanding our universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a physicist, I&#8217;m an astrophysicist, I&#8217;m the chair of the physics and chemistry department and also the director of the School of Science and Technology this is what I do,&#8221; said faculty member Govind Menon. &#8220;Astronomy and astrophysics is very important, very near and dear to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The club will continue to meet to discuss space news and give attendees the opportunity to stargaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We meet usually the last Friday of either every month or every two months in the evening,&#8221; Robinson explained. &#8220;By the time we&#8217;re done with all of our space talk, we can go out to the quad when it&#8217;s dark and get to observing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 For those who enjoy watching the night sky, Troy University is home to the Troy Astronomical Society (TAS).<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, the club presented a lecture about the Big Bang Theory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The TAS is a club that is a public astronomy club it&#8217;s not just for Troy University and so we have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/04\/04\/troy-faculty-and-students-discuss-big-bang-theory-stargaze-at-tas-meeting\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"topics":[17],"class_list":["post-4054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4054"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}