Cal Academy Night Life

California Academy of Sciences: NightLife in Space -- Other Earths

Other Earths are out there, and tonight NightLife enlists scientific experts to talk about the missions and spacecrafts currently on the search for exoplanets and life beyond Earth.

As the only man-made “other” Earth in existence, learn about the International Space Station’s unique extreme environment for a variety of sciences and research; hear from scientist Dr. Liz Warren, member of the ISS U.S. National Laboratory, about just a few of those current and future experiments happening on the orbiting lab, and what it means for you on Earth, astronauts on the ISS, and on future missions to the Moon and Mars.

Learn about the formation of exoplanet systems with Megan Ansdell, postdoc at UC Berkeley’s Center for Integrative Planet Studies (CIPS).

Find out what it takes to detect and characterize exoplanets with astronomer and planetary scientist Franck Marchis of the SETI Institute and take a peek through the lens of Unistellar’s stellar, portable eVscope telescope.

At the Project Lab, learn about NASA’s Ames Center for Exoplanet Studies and hear from UC Berkeley researcher Victor Reyes-Umana on how anaerobic microbes on Earth might actually mimic life in extraterrestrial environments.

Music by DJ Masha Martinovic.