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Archive: October 2015 (2 Posts)

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The Arctic Voyage of HMS Investigator, 1850-54

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

Today’s guest post is by ST&B’s upcoming speaker Glenn “Marty” Stein, a maritime and polar historian who will be at the Library on October 29 to talk about his recent book “Discovering the North-West Passage: The Four-Year Arctic Odyssey of H.M.S. Investigator and the McClure Expedition” (McFarland & Co, 2015). Stein has researched maritime and …

Posted in: Biography, Guest Blog Posts, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos

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Scouting for Exoplanets with TESS, Lecture on October 8

Posted by: Jennifer Harbster

The first exoplanets, or extrasolar planets, were definitively discovered in the 1990s, although the idea of other worlds like ours goes back to the ancient Greeks, and their existence had been theorized by Giordano Bruno in the 16th century and Isaac Newton in the 18th. The first direct images of exoplanets were produced in 2008. …

Posted in: Aeronautics/Astronautics, Astronomy/Mathematics, Guest Blog Posts, Lunchtime Lectures and Videos