Astronomy on Tap, Las Vegas

03/29/2025

🙏🏻Thanks to everyone who came out and to HUDL Brewing Company for hosting Astronomy on Tap XIII! 🍻 Thanks also to Simon Matin (UNLV) and Dr. Paul La Plante (UNLV) for explaining the history of and latest research on cosmology🌌Congrats to team "NASA, now for sale on Ebay" for winning trivia! 🏆 See you next time! 👋🏻

10/20/2024

🙏🏻Thanks for making XII a success! 🍻Huge thanks to for graciously hosting and to everyone who came! Thanks also to Bo Royer (UNLV)🌟for discussing variable stars, to Sudat Khan (UNLV)🎤 for emceeing for the first time, and to Jason Steffen (UNLV)🔭 for his insider account of 🛰️NASA's Kepler mission🏆Congrats to team Q for winning trivia! 👋🏻See you next time!

03/15/2024

What a fun night! Congratulations to the winning trivia team, Apes of Wrath🏆

Thank you, Ian Rabago (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and Shangjia Zhang (UNLV), for expanding our knowledge about planet formation and showing that places like Tatooine really exist☀️🌍☀️ Best of luck with your Ph.D. defenses and beyond🎓

Big thanks to everyone who came to one of our highest-attended events (the house was packed!) and, more importantly, for showing love and support for Astronomy Aleworks💕 It was amazing to celebrate their more than 5 years of success, and we will deeply miss working with Matt Brady and their great staff🥲 Here's to the next chapter🍻

While no one can beat their delicious space- and sci-fi-themed beers, we are excited to secure a new venue to host our future events, so stay tuned!

See you space cowboy...

03/07/2024

15 years ago today NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope, and Prof. Jason Steffen of UNLV has a new book coming in October about the mission that he was a part of.

"Hidden in the Heavens" available for preorder now https://a.co/d/cb8RaMT.

03/02/2024

🤔How's your space-based Trivia?? 🤔
What is the home planet of House Atreides?🌊
What causes a Black Hole to evaporate? ⚫
In what decade was the destruction of Skylab? 🤯
Bring your trivia team to Astronomy on Tap on Tuesday!
Register now for free tickets:

Astronomy on Tap, Las Vegas - XI at Astronomy Aleworks, 7350 Eastgate Rd #170, Henderson, 89011 Tickets and Information

03/01/2024

Our second speaker on TUESDAY is Las Vegas Local, Ian Rabago, he will be defending his dissertation soon on what happens when you put a protoplanetary disk around TWO stars! If you want to know how Tatooine formed, ask Ian!

Get your free ticket today: http://tinyurl.com/5e7reydk