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http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Naeye/1514205085
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| The Origin of Everything: How Things Got to Be the Way They Are Right Now |
| Bob Naeye |
| Thursday, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:00 PM |
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http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/media/060915/index.html
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Look all around you. We live on a beautiful blue planet teeming with life, and with a complex industrial civilization all around us. But based on what we have learned from modern science, all of this started some 13.7 billion years ago from a tiny region of space, in an expanding fireball of utter simplicity known as the Big Bang. How did we get from Point A (the Big Bang) to Point B (a complex civilization on a complex planet)? Sky & Telescope editor Robert Naeye presents a whirlwind and colorfully illustrated trip through this amazing scientific story. He will trace the critical transitions that led to our current existence, from the origin of the first stars and galaxies through the formation of the solar system to the origin and evolution of life on Earth, to the emergence of intelligent beings capable of understanding where they came from.
Speaker Bio
Our speaker, Bob Naeye, owns five telescopes and more eyepieces than he can count. His favorite deep-sky activity is perusing the ghostly tendrils of the Veil Nebula using an OIII filter. Bob is editor in chief of Sky & Telescope magazine and SkyandTelescope.com, and a proud member of the American Astronomical Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, and the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg, which is based near his hometown of Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Besides his S&T experience, Bob worked as a researcher/reporter at Discover magazine, senior editor at Astronomy magazine, editor in chief of Mercury magazine (the membership magazine of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific), and as senior science writer in the Astrophysics Science Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
He has been honored by the Astronomical Association of Northern California with its Professional Astronomer of the Year Award, and also by the American Astronomical Society’s High Energy Astrophysics Division with its David N. Schramm Award for Science Journalism. Bob has also authored two books and contributed to two others.
Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. |
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