Alien Earth: Secret Science Club Presents Planet Hunter Jeremy Kasdin

Is there life beyond our own solar system?

“The Universe is teeming with planets,” says Princeton’s Jeremy Kasdin. So far though, astronomers have only been able to detect potentially Earth-like planets through indirect observation. Kasdin and his NASA colleagues want to change that with a revolutionary space-based telescope and starshade. With this new observatory, scientists could take snapshots of some of the billions of exoplanets they estimate are located in the habitable zones of other solar systems. What’s out there?

Jeremy Kasdin is principal investigator for the Exo-Starshade project, part of NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program & professor of aerospace engineering at Princeton.

Before & After: Blast off with our cosmic cocktails, groove to tunes from alien worlds and dimensions and stick around for the interplanetary Q&A.











When: Tue., Jul. 14, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Where: The Bell House
149 7th St., Brooklyn
718-643-6510
Price: Free
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Is there life beyond our own solar system?

“The Universe is teeming with planets,” says Princeton’s Jeremy Kasdin. So far though, astronomers have only been able to detect potentially Earth-like planets through indirect observation. Kasdin and his NASA colleagues want to change that with a revolutionary space-based telescope and starshade. With this new observatory, scientists could take snapshots of some of the billions of exoplanets they estimate are located in the habitable zones of other solar systems. What’s out there?

Jeremy Kasdin is principal investigator for the Exo-Starshade project, part of NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program & professor of aerospace engineering at Princeton.

Before & After: Blast off with our cosmic cocktails, groove to tunes from alien worlds and dimensions and stick around for the interplanetary Q&A.

Buy tickets/get more info now