A Grand Tour of Remarkable Exoplanets
Talk by Dr. Franck Marchis, Senior Planetary Astronomer at the SETI Institute Tuesday, December 8 7-8 p.m. Watch on Facebook and YouTube Exoplanets are everywhere. Astronomers have discovered more 4,000 of them and today we know that in average each star in our galaxy has 2 planets! Among them, 300 million could be habitable. That’s […]
Chabot Members’ Virtual Fireside Chat
Wednesday, December 16 6 p.m. Free, Exclusive for Chabot members RSVP NOW You're invited to join us on Zoom for a members-exclusive event. Join us for a cozy, fireside chat with Chabot Space & Science Center Executive Director Adam Tobin and Director of Education Alysia Caryl. Get The Inside Scoop In this exclusive […]
The Sky This Month
What's happening in the sky this month? Friday, December 18 7-8 p.m. Watch on Facebook and YouTube Join Chabot's astronomers, with Gerald McKeegan & Don Saito on Facebook Live for a short tour of this month's nighttime sky. Learn to recognize many of this month's constellations and bright stars, and even learn a little about […]
The Great Conjunction Virtual Telescope Viewing
Monday, December 21 5-6 p.m. Free, Watch On Facebook and YouTube Join Chabot astronomers virtually on Facebook and YouTube for a rare celestial event! Every 20 years, Jupiter gets very close to Saturn as seen from Earth, an event astronomers call "conjunction." This year, the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction will be especially close, the closest in 800 […]
Cancelled: Virtual Telescope Viewing 12/26
Virtual Telescope Viewings will take a holiday break on 12/26, but we look forward to viewing the cosmos with you in the New Year! Every Saturday 9-10:30 p.m. Free on Facebook Live and YouTube Join our resident astronomers on Facebook Live and YouTube every Saturday evening live from Chabot’s Observation deck! Each week, our astronomers […]
