Ludington: All About Exoplanets Online
It took until 1995 for astronomers to discover the first planets orbiting a Sun-like star other than our own. Since then, we’ve discovered over 5,000 of these exoplanets. I will discuss how the two most prolific methods of discovering exoplanets - the radial velocity method and the transit method – work and what they can tell us about these distant worlds. Finally, I will share what we’ve learned from the thousands of planets we’ve discovered and what the future of this exciting field holds.
Dr. Jacob Hamer is the Assistant Curator of Planetarium Education at the New Jersey State Museum. Jacob received a B.A. in Physics and in Mathematics from the CUNY Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College in New York City in 2017. While he was at Hunter College, he carried out research on galaxy evolution at the American Museum of Natural History. Jacob received his Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Johns Hopkins University in 2022. Jacob’s doctoral research focused on exoplanets - he investigated how exoplanets and their stars interact, and how those systems evolve over time.
- Date:
- Monday, September 16, 2024
- Time:
- 11:30am - 12:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Library:
- Ludington Library
- Audience:
- Adults Older Adults
- Categories:
- Information Literacy
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
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