How the Visions of Sci-Fi Led the Way to Space
Talk by Ben Burress Friday, November 20 7-8 p.m. Free on YouTube and Facebook Live Long before a rocket carried the first person into space, people journeyed to the Moon, Mars, and other worlds on flights of fancy—imaginative voyages of fictional storytelling. Beyond entertaining us, science fiction tales have sometimes foreshadowed real events of space […]
A Jewel in the Sky — Spotting The International Space Station
Talk by Faride Khalaf Friday, December 4 7 p.m. Watch on Facebook and YouTube Above our life sustaining atmosphere resides an international team of scientists living onboard an orbiting complex we know as the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS is the crowning achievement of many nations. It symbolizes a new beginning in the exploration […]
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 […]
