Alien Worlds and the Origins of Science

Date: 

Mon., May. 9, 2022
7 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

Category: 

Lectures

Location: 

Rothenberg Hall

Event Notes: 

Free with registration

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Dr. R. Paul Butler, Staff Scientist at the Earth and Planets Laboratory for the Carnegie Institution for Science, discusses the flood of extrasolar planets being discovered and the realistic prospects of direct imaging and spectroscopy of Earth-like planets around nearby stars within the next generation. Modern science began with Copernicus speculating that the Earth is a planet and that all the planets orbit the Sun. During the first four centuries of modern science, the discovery of extrasolar planets remained tantalizingly out of reach. Finally, in 1995, the first confirmed exoplanets were found. Since then, the trickle of new planets has grown to a flood, first from ground-based precision Doppler surveys, and, more recently, from the Kepler and TESS space missions.

6:30 p.m. | Doors open
7 p.m. | Musical performance
7:30 p.m. | Lecture begins

Event dates:

• April 11 | 2020-2022: 21st Century Astronomy So Far
• April 25 | The Past, Present, and Future of the James Webb Space Telescope: Seeking Our Origins in Stars and Galaxies
• May 9 | Alien Worlds and the Origins of Science
• May 23 | Is There a Crisis in Cosmology?