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Night Moves: The Cosmic History of the Human Species at Franklin Institute

POSTED: Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 9:29 PM
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Don't know what to do tonight? Don't worry, we've got you covered.



Sandra Faber, the recipient of the 2009 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science, is taking a survey. She's examining more than 65,000 galaxies — looking at them, measuring the heavy elements in them, determining how old they are — all to find out if they've got the right stuff to make life. Her and a bunch of other brainiacs, including Michael Fall, Jeremiah Ostriker, Scott Tremaine and David Weinberg, will ask the big questions that Faber's work is pondering tonight — Are we alone? Do we have galactical homies out there? And if we don't, how is it possible that in that big mess of a universe we're the only frickin ones?


Tue., April 21, 7-9 p.m., free, Franklin Institute, 20th St. & the Parkway, 215-448-1329, fi.edu.

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