Partnering with Bay Area retirement communities Belmont Village Albany and St. Paul's Towers and San Francisco Towers, Front Porch Senior Living Communities, the series expands learning opportunities to retirees while providing an opportunity for retirees to learn about Bay Area retirement communities. Through the generous support provided by our host communities, there is no cost for participants.
Thursday, June 15, 2023
11am - 12pm
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Hosted by St. Paul's Towers and San Francisco Towers, Front Porch Senior Living Communities.
We are excited to host Dr. Alex Filippenko with our partners St. Paul's Towers and San Francisco Towers, Front Porch Senior Living Communities.
There is a new supersensitive eye in the cosmic sky. Parked nearly one million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is 100 times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope. JWST observes at the red to the mid-infrared parts of the spectrum, offering new insights into a vast array of objects and processes -- including solar system formation, star birth and death, galaxy evolution, and, perhaps, the origins of life. Dr. Filippenko is a member of several teams of astronomers who are and will be observing using JWST. Showing some of the best new images, he gives us the inside scoop on what astronomers expect the telescope to do and what they have already learned from the first months of the telescope's operation.
Dr. Filippenko was voted the University of California, Berkeley's "best professor" nine times! An elected member of the
National Academy of Sciences, he is one of the world’s most highly cited astrophysicists. He has produced five astronomy video courses with The Great Courses, co-authored an award-winning astronomy textbook, and appeared in about 120 TV documentaries.
You can watch past UCRLS lectures at the Retirement Center YouTube channel by clicking here. The most recent lectures are posted below.