Web Seminar

Join us on Thursday, January 30, 2025, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET, to learn about the search for planets located outside our Solar System.

Join exoplanet astronomer Rob Zellem, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, as he discusses how we find and characterize exoplanets, planets outside of our own Solar System, with the goal of detecting signatures of life. He will also discuss current and near future ground- and space-based missions, such as NASA’s Hubble, TESS, and James Webb space telescopes, and a citizen science project called Exoplanet Watch, which features amateur astronomers conducting observations of exoplanets to help use these resources more efficiently and to discover new planets.

Zellem will also cover near-future missions, such as NASA’s next flagship mission, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which will both survey the skies in the visible and near-infrared to discover tens of thousands of new exoplanets and take photographs of exoplanets to establish the technologies needed for NASA’s next generation mission, the Habitable Worlds Observatory, which will be designed to discover alien life.

All individuals receive a certificate of participation and 100 NSTA activity points for attending the live seminar and completing the end-of-program survey. A certificate of participation is not awarded for watching the recorded version of the program.

We invite you to register for upcoming web seminars at NSTA.