Dr. Kuneshs presentation will first explore the major and minor planets that orbit the sun in our own solar system, and then look back at what people from ancient times through the 20th century thought about the possibility of other solar systems around other stars.

He will discuss how astronomers discovered the first Jupiter-like planets orbiting other stars by using something called the radial velocity method, how the Kepler spacecraft has discovered thousands of additional planets by using called the transit method, and the future plans that astronomers have to find more Earth-like planets around nearby stars and to look for evidence of life on those planets.

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