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SUMMARY:Know Stars - Our Place Amongst the Stars
LOCATION:Downtown Bend Library\nDowntown Bend Library
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DESCRIPTION:Discuss the scale\, age\, and content of the Universe with an 
 astrophysicist.\nThis is an in-person program.\nThe Universe is a vast pla
 ce\, filled with an amazing variety of objects. Humanity has been wonderin
 g about our Universe�s size\, origin\, and content since the first of us
  looked up at the stars. This talk will discuss the scale\, age\, and cont
 ent of the Universe. It will also look back at how humanity first determin
 ed the size of the Earth and solar system objects\, made measurements\, de
 termined distances\, and discovered our place in the Universe. This journe
 y will start with how we determined the size of the Earth and then discuss
  all the steps that take us to the edge of the visible Universe. The last 
 part of the talk will be about how we determine distance\, age\, and compo
 sition of astronomical bodies today and how new data from James Webb Space
  Telescope and other telescopes\, on the ground and in space\, have given 
 us a new view of the Universe and how they are likely to continue to chang
 e our perception of the Universe for many decades to come.\nhttps://intere
 stingengineering.com/lists/antikythera-mechanism-2000-year-old-computer \n
 https://mapoftheuniverse.net/\nhttp://pathallresearch.blogspot.com/2014/03
 /\nRonald Polidan is an astrophysicist/space technologist who retired and 
 moved to Terrebonne\, Oregon in 2016.  He unretired in 2020 and currently 
 holds the position of Director of Programs at Lunar Technologies\, Inc.\, 
 a space industrialization company based in Houston\, TX.  He is leading a 
 NASA-funded study to develop a detailed concept for a very large radio obs
 ervatory (larger in area than Bend)\, that would be robotically built on t
 he far side of the Moon using materials extracted from lunar dirt. The pri
 mary science goal of this observatory is to see back to the dawn of time -
  beyond what can be observed with the James Webb Space Telescope - to befo
 re the first stars in the Universe have formed.\nHe has over 45 years of s
 pace mission experience working almost equal amounts of time in academia\,
  government\, and industry. His previous two employers were NASA Goddard S
 pace Flight Center (1989-2004) and Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems (200
 4-2016). At Goddard Space Flight Center he served in a variety of roles\, 
 beginning as NASA�s Project Scientist for Operations for the Hubble Spac
 e Telescope\, from prior to its launch in 1990 up to the first Hubble serv
 icing mission\, and ending as the NASA Center�s Chief Technologist\, ove
 rseeing all technology development in the NASA Center. At Northrop Grumman
  he worked in the civil science sector in various roles (Manager\, Directo
 r\, and Chief Architect)\, overseeing the development of new science missi
 ons and related technology.\n*cr*.\nhttps://dpl.libnet.info/event/11607354
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