Special Edition: Science by the Pint with scientists from NASA's Kepler Mission

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Are we alone? NASA's search for habitable worlds with Charles Sobeck, Kepler mission manager at NASA's Ames Research Center and Dr. Douglas Hudgins, exoplanet exploration program scientist at NASA headquarters

Note that this is a Tuesday!

Join us on June 3rd, at 6:30pm at the Burren, for a special edition of Science by the Pint. Members of the Kepler team will be joining us to talk about the discoveries of the Kepler space telescope and the excitement surrounding this very new field of science.

Science by the Pint is sponsored by an organization of Harvard graduate students called Science in the News. In between their sleepless hours of hard work at Harvard Med School, they bring cutting edge scientific research to the public in a fun and informal format.

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The centuries-old quest for other worlds like our Earth has been rejuvenated by the intense excitement and popular interest surrounding the discovery of hundreds of planets orbiting other stars. There is now clear evidence for substantial numbers of three types of exoplanets: gas giants, hot-super-Earths in short period orbits, and ice giants. The Kepler Mission, is NASA's first mission capable of finding Earth-size habitable zone planets around other stars. The Kepler space telescope is specifically designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way galaxy to discover dozens of Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone and determine how many of the billions of stars in our galaxy have such planets.

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