Can We Be Touched by a Star? | Sabrina Savage | TEDxNashville скачать в хорошем качестве

Can We Be Touched by a Star? | Sabrina Savage | TEDxNashville

Although a stable source of warmth and light to most of humanity, our nearest stellar companion is anything but serene. It is a gorgeous, writhing, superheated ball of twisted magnetic fields, capable of the largest explosions in the solar system, that can have profound consequences on our daily lives and our future in space. Growing up near the dark sky beaches on the Alabama coast, Dr. Sabrina Savage developed a love of the night sky from a very early age and went on to pursue a career as an astrophysicist. Her undergraduate degree in physics was earned from the University of South Alabama in Mobile during which she participated in the Research Experience for Undergraduates program at the University of Wyoming (UW) in Laramie. She bolted back to the mountain west after receiving her B.S. and earned her M.S. in physics and astronomy at UW by chasing after Gamma Ray Burst afterglows (the biggest explosions in the universe) with the university's two ground-based observatories, one atop a nearly 10,000 foot high mountain. In 2005, she headed further north to beautiful Bozeman, Montana where she became immersed in solar physics at Montana State University and completed her Ph.D. work in 2010 while learning to operate solar satellite instrumentation. She then continued her thesis research at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow before landing her current position as a NASA civil servant at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. She now serves as the U.S. Project Scientist for the Hinode mission and develops new solar instrumentation for sounding rocket experiments and the International Space Station. Her research pursuits center around solar flares (the biggest explosions in the solar system) using high energy instrumentation to understand the mechanics behind how the magnetic field rapidly releases enormous amounts of energy into our solar system. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx