Solar physicist and former Spacelab astronaut Dr. Loren Acton will launch us into the topic with "Discovering the Connection: The Day the Earth Caught Fire." He will recount the events around Richard Carrington's 1859 discovery of the solar storm that 'shocked' the world.  

Volcanoes are common throughout the Solar System and volcanic eruptions are among nature's most awesome spectacles.

Launched in 1977 on a journey to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, the two Voyager spacecraft are now nine and 11 billion miles from Earth, exploring the outermost layer of the heliosphere, a giant bubble of solar wind that envelops all of the planets. 

Pamela Conrad will explore some of the challenging locales to which life adapts, from the deep sea floor to the edges of volcanoes, and look at how this can affect the search for life on Mars.

In this lecture, Ken Sembach, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, will highlight some of the exciting science to be conducted in JWST’s first year of observations. Tickets are free but required. 

Michael Werner, the Spitzer Project Scientist for over 30 years, discusses Spitzer’s technical innovations and the scientific advances they enabled.

Join Dartmouth professor Mary K. Hudson as she discusses how a particularly violent class of solar storms became identified as the major mechanism producing disruptions in space weather in the Earth's vicinity.

Learn about the awesome power of the wind in this lecture illustrated with remarkable images from multiple Mars missions.

Join Carol Raymond on a tour of this ancient world and learn what it can tell us about the early days of the solar system.

David Charbonneau, professor of astronomy at Harvard University, will discuss how, using upcoming large telescopes, astronomers will search the atmospheres of Earth-like planets for the telltale chemical fingerprints of life.