$48. Includes dinner. Part of CWRU’s Lifelong Learning program. Lecture starts at 6pm.

Paul Butler, Staff Scientist, The Carnegie Institution for Science

Over the past 20 years more than a thousand extrasolar planets have been found! Dr. Butler and his collaborators are building precise systems to survey the nearest stars and have found hundreds of planets, including 5 of the first 6 planets, the first saturn-mass planet, the first neptune-mass planet, the first terrestrial mass planet, and the first multiple planet system. In August 2016, they announced the discovery of a potentially habitable planet around the nearest star, Proxima Centauri. This discovery highlights the latest statistical evidence from Kepler and ground-based Doppler surveys that some 30% of stars have potentially habitable planets!

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