Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series
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- Event has passed (Wed Jan 21, 2009 - Wed May 11, 2016)
- Cost
- Free
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- Literary Arts, Literary Arts Lectures
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San Francisco State University Astrophysics Professor Stephen Kane, Ph. D with discuss Finding a New earcth: Exoplanets and the Habitable Zone, an illustrated technical lecture.Over the past two decades, more than 1,500 new planetary systems have been discovered, many of which include planets different from those in our own Solar System. A key step towards finding "Earth 2.0" will be to identify rocky planets that occupy the "Habitable Zone" of their stars. Dr. Kane will describe what the idea of a Habitable Zone means and show examples of known planets that lie in their star's Habitable Zone (even if the star is not like our sun).
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