Nov 12, 7:30 pm

Kirkland Senior Center

Program: "Are We Alone? NASA’s Search for Life Outside the Solar System"

In the last three decades, the explosion of exoplanet discoveries have demonstrated that, on average, every star in the Milky Way hosts a planetary system. With so many planets now discovered, our next challenge is characterizing the atmospheres of those planets to assess their potential habitability and search for the signs of active biology. This talk will highlight recent exoplanet discoveries and describe the role that the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) is playing in developing the science, hardware, and training the next generations of scientists and engineers for NASA’s upcoming flagship exoplanet mission, the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). It will describe the HWO mission and how the University of Colorado is developing hardware on small satellites and rocket missions, and how they use these missions to train the students who will lead NASA’s future missions like HWO and beyond.

Presented by Kevin France, PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Nov 15, 7:00-10:00pm

Barton-Brown Observatory.

"Stargazing"

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune will grace the fall sky along with star clusters, galaxies, etc.

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