The NSAS February General Meeting will be next Tuesday, location for this meeting only to be the Fr. Mac Pavillion (old sports pavillion we previously used). The time is 7:30PM, as usual. Our speaker this month is Franceso di Mille from the AAO and Las Campanas Observatory. His abstract follows:
Highly collimated gas ejections are among the most dramatic structures in the universe, observed to emerge from very different astrophysical systems—from active galactic nuclei down to young brown dwarf stars. I will present the discovery of a giant, highly collimated jet from Sanduleak’s star in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). With a physical extent of 14 parsec at the distance of the LMC, it represents the largest stellar jet ever discovered, and the first resolved stellar jet beyond the Milky Way.
I will also talk about the Las Campanas Observatory and the Magellan telescopes.



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