How to Find Earth-Like Planets in Far-Away Solar Systems October 22, 2009
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/01/Bethany_Cobb_In_Galileos_Footsteps
Bethany Cobb, a UC Berkeley postdoctoral fellow, discusses NASA's Kepler Mission and its search for Earth-like planets in other solar systems. She predicts the mission will soon begin discovering "little rocky planets" orbiting distant stars.
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Learn about the great astronomy pioneer Edwin Hubble and how his use of a 100-inch telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California not only resolved the "Great Debate" over the scale of the universe but also provided radical evidence that the universe is expanding. - Commonwealth Club of California
Bethany Cobb is a National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley.
She received her Ph.D. at Yale University for research on massive stellar explosions called gamma-ray bursts. She is dedicated to sharing her love of astronomy with others and is the astronomer for The Old Farmer's Almanac.
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