Nov
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November Café Scientifique with Aaron Boley
Posted by: jdewitt | November 9, 2014 | Leave a Comment
Dear Café Scientifiquers, our next café will happen on Tuesday November 25th, 7:30pm at The Railway Club. Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Aaron Boley. The title of his talk is:
More Than Science Fiction: Planets beyond the Solar System
For centuries we have relied on only the Solar System for understanding our origins. To dream of distant worlds was a mixture of reasoning, conjecture, and science fiction. Now, thousands of planets have been discovered outside of the Solar System, and we continue to learn more about the Solar System itself. In this talk, we will explore the wide variety of planetary systems that have so far been observed in the Galaxy. These new worlds, both alien and familiar, challenge our theories, but also give us new information for unlocking planet formation’s secrets.