Saving the Dark Movie and Panel Discussion
Friday, April 23rd 7pm Free, Watch on Facebook and YouTube Join us for a special screening of Saving The Dark, a documentary movie on astronomy and light pollution. Learn more about the significance of astronomy and the night skies, effects of light pollution on astronomy, human health, wildlife and beyond, what we can do to fight […]
Near-Earth Asteroids, The Impact Hazard, and Space Missions
SETI Talk by Dr. Michael Busch Tuesday, April 27th 7pm Free, Watch on Facebook and YouTube Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are small solar system bodies in orbits that come near or cross the orbit of Earth. Dr. Michael Busch will review NEAs as unique physical worlds, as potential impact hazards to Earth, and as accessible destinations for spacecraft. Michael […]
Making Bricks in Space Members Workshop
Workshop with the Stanford Student Space Initiative Mars BRICs Team Saturday, May 1 11 a.m. Free on Zoom, Spaces Limited Register Free Stanford University’s Student Space Initiative (SSI) is one of the university’s largest engineering groups. Last fall, their Mars BRICs Team won the NASA Student Payload Opportunity with Citizen Science, or SPOCS, competition. With this […]
Forbidden Planets: Alien Worlds in Science Fiction and Science Fact
Talk by The SETI Institute's Beth Johnson Tuesday, May 18 7-8 p.m. Free on Facebook and YouTube We’ve all traveled to Tatooine, and some of us to Vulcan or Pandora, but how do these sci-fi worlds compare to the real life exoplanets like Kepler 16b, or the seven planets of TRAPPIST 1? Join us on […]
NASA Ocean Satellites, Supercomputers, And Climate Science
Talk by Dr. Dimitris Menemenlis, Research Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Friday, May 21 7 p.m. Free on Facebook and YouTube Learn more about climate science at NASA with Dr. Dimitris Menemenlis, a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Working with the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, […]
