Festival Guide

Festival Guide

Festival Guide

Welcome to Cambridge Science Festival 2023!

 

Here you can find a listing for every event at this year’s Festival. Simply click on listings to find out more, including information about the organizer, the venue, and how to reserve your ticket! Every event is free and open to the public, but many have limited capacity. Get your tickets soon to avoid missing out.

Use the dropdown menus to search for events on specific dates, or in different categories. If you’re not sure where to start, click here to find out more about this year’s themes and series.

DATE
EVENT
ORGANIZER
SERIES
TAGS
START TIME
Sunday
Oct 1
Oct 1, 12 pm - 4 pm
CARNIVAL
Create Your Own Exoplanet!
Create Your Own Exoplanet!
TESS at MIT
TESS at MIT
CARNIVAL
FAMILY FRIENDLY SPACE
12 pm
DESCRIPTION

What planets orbit the stars that shine brightly in our night sky? Are they gargantuan or minuscule? Warm or chilly? Part of a family or on their own? Meet the astronomers studying these exciting planets with NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS. Learn with hands-on activities about the TESS mission (in operation since 2018!) and how astronomers at MIT and the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian use this tiny but mighty telescope to find weird and wonderful worlds called “exoplanets”.

LOCATION
Kendall/MIT Open Space
292 Main Street
Cambridge MA
02142
Map link
START TIME
12 pm

END TIME
4 pm
ABOUT THE ORGANIZER

TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey) looks for exoplanets (or planets outside our solar system) around the nearest and brightest stars. At MIT we create scientific reports for one of the pipelines and organize vetting of the targets as possible planets vs. false positives. With TESS in its 6th year of operation, the wide range of stellar data is becoming increasingly useful for astronomy beyond exoplanets as well.

Find out more about TESS at MIT.
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