Wednesday, January 29, 2020
8:00 PM -
9:30 PM
Beckman Auditorium
Watson Lecture - The Legacy of the Spitzer Space Telescope
Series: Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Thomas Soifer,
Harold Brown Professor of Physics, Emeritus; Director, Spitzer Science Center,
Caltech,
On January 30, 2020, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope mission will end, more than 16 years after launch and four decades after conception. In his talk, Soifer will describe the innovations that led to Spitzer's long lifespan and illustrate the mission's main findings, which include revealing a stellar system with seven earth-size planets and massive galaxies in an infant universe.
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