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Riwaj Pokhrel at Southworth Planetarium

Thursday, June 1, 2017, 7:00pm — Riwaj Pokhrel, Speaker
“Star Formation in Nearby Molecular Clouds”
Southworth Planetarium, 70 Falmouth St, Portland, ME 04103

Join Southern Maine Astronomers as they host a remarkable speaker, doctoral candidate Riwaj Pokhrel. He will be discussing his work at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (the professional home of CMAS’s own Nimesh Patel). A few years back in his native Nepal, Mr. Pokhrel joined a long line of people waiting to peer into the eyepiece of an utterly unfamiliar device from abroad, the 5” telescope that Astronomers Without Borders had shipped to his town. That kindled an interest in astronomy that, backed by considerable scientific aptitude and a friendly curiosity spawning many messages back and forth with Astronomers Without Borders, lead to his attending college to study astronomy in the United States, culminating soon in his earning a Ph.D. from one of the world’s premier observatories.

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