SPACE – Cambridge Science Festival

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Finding Planets Beyond Our Solar System with TESS

12:00 PM

Discovery Zone: Kendall/MIT Open Space

What planets orbit the stars shining brightly in our night sky? Meet astronomers studying these exciting planets with NASA's TESS telescope. Learn with hands-on activities about TESS and how astronomers at MIT and Harvard use this tiny but mighty telescope to find weird and wonderful worlds called “exoplanets”.

Science & Fiction: The wonder of Storytelling

07:00 PM

Aeronaut Brewing

Join Best Selling Science Fiction author Matthew Medney as he reads excerpts from his cornerstone work- Beyond Kuiper: The Galactic Star Alliance and dives into the science used in fiction and beyond.

Galaxy Zoo

12:00 PM

Kendall/MIT Open Space: Discovery Zone

Stop by to see the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI)’s galaxy zoo demonstration, which uses labels created by citizen scientists to automate data analysis using machine learning to better understand complex data from our galaxy.

Planets, Space Rocks, and Magnetic Fields

12:00 PM

Kendall/MIT Open Space: Discovery Zone

Visit us to see a collection of meteorites and a variety of hands-on demonstrations exploring magnetic fields. Games and activities focus on how we measure planetary magnetic fields, and what we can learn from them.

Sun Observing with MIT Astrogazers

12:00 PM

Astro Area: Kendall/MIT Open Space

Come look at the sun through our solar telescopes and ask us questions you have about outer space or being an astronomer.

The James Webb Space Telescope – From Concept to Commissioning

02:00 PM

MIT Museum: The Lee Family Exchange

F. Richard Myers is NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Ground Segment and Operations Lead for Northrop Grumman. In this talk, Richard shares his experiences working on the most powerful space telescope ever built, from concept design, to development, to testing, and finally to the execution of the mission itself.

Listening to the Universe: An Introduction to Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics

04:00 PM

MIT Museum: The Sharp Room

Come learn the latest news about gravitational waves and black holes!