Are There Planets Like Earth Around Other Stars? (Part Deux)

Thu Dec 05 2024 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-05:00

Carnegie Institution for Science | Earth and Planets Laboratory | Broad Branch Road Campus | Washington

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Are There Planets Like Earth Around Other Stars? (Part Deux)
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Explore the possibility of finding Earthlike planets around other stars with Carnegie Science's Dr. Alan Boss.
About this Event

In 2006, Alan Boss presented the first lecture in the Neighborhood Lecture Series, with the title "Are There Planets Like Earth Around Other Stars?"
Nearly two decades later, Boss returns to this existential puzzle, summarizing the extent to which this question has been answered so far, and outlining the next steps in detecting and studying Earth-like exoplanets. Major new astronomical telescopes will be required to solve the puzzle, ranging from Carnegie's Giant Magellan Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile to NASA's anticipated space telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory.
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About the Speaker

is a theorist and an observational astronomer. His theoretical work focuses on the formation of binary and multiple stars, triggered collapse of the presolar cloud that eventually made the Solar System, mixing and transport processes in protoplanetary disks, and the formation of gas giant and ice giant protoplanets. His observational works centers on the Carnegie Astrometric Planet Search project, which has been underway for the last decade at Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.



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The presentation will begin at 6:30 PM EDT in the Greenewalt Auditorium of Carnegie Science’s Broad Branch Road Campus in NW, Washington, DC. Doors open at 6:00 PM EDT. Light refreshments will be available from 6-6:30 PM EDT.


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Carnegie Institution for Science | Earth and Planets Laboratory | Broad Branch Road Campus, 5241 Broad Branch Road Northwest, Washington, United States

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