April 25, 2008
8pm - 11pm
Bring your friends and come party under the stars at Chabot's quarterly nocturnal celebration.
Featuring live music, refreshments, activities and fun!
o Full access to Chabot Space & Science Center interactive exhibits
o SonicVision - a new alternative music Planetarium show
o Telescope viewing in our Observatory Complex (weather permitting)
o Enjoy micro-brews from Buffalo Bill's Brewery
o Pizza, wine and other refreshments from the cash bar
TICKETS:
o $15 Adult
o $10 Student
o $8 Member
Purchase tickets or call the Chabot Box Office at: 510.336.7373
Saturday, February 16, 3:30 & 5:30; Sunday, February 17, 1:30 & 3:30
Tickets: $75 per couple; available at the Box Office, 510-336-7373
Celebrate with your Valentine and take a simulated space mission to the Red Planet. Includes chocolates, fizzy beverage, and a souvenir of your trip to outer space
Couples are stranded on a spacecraft and they need to use teamwork to fix it and continue to Mars.
Chabot Space & Science Center announces 2006 Nobel Prize winner for physics, George Smoot has been appointed to the Chabot Foundation Board of Directors.
Joining the Foundation Board is one of several steps Smoot is taking in his involvement with Chabot. The Nobel laureate plans to play an active part in Chabot's programs in fundraising, public outreach, consulting on future exhibits, and increasing resources for teacher development.
Smoot shared the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics with John C. Mather, a NASA scientist who collaborated with Smoot in studying the early formation of the universe using the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite. In 1992, when they announced their findings to the world, it was heralded by astrophysicists as "finding the Holy Grail of cosmology." Smoot and his team found the first evidence of structure in the early universe. Their research has spawned new cosmological studies of the formation of the universe.
Smoot used his Nobel Prize money to create the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics (BCCP). The Center focuses on understanding the origin and evolution of the universe through a series of programs to define the observations and experiments needed to answer key questions about the development of the cosmos. The BCCP also offers a rich program in education and outreach to train future students and engage the public.
"The next generation of physicists will make discoveries about the cosmos that will advance our knowledge of how galaxies and solar systems are formed," said Smoot. "Chabot's programs plant the seeds in students who will ultimately build on our research to answer questions about how our universe began."
As a boy, Smoot was enamored with the night sky. His interest in physics was nourished by parents who were educators and scientists. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. from MIT. Smoot came to the University of California at Berkeley in 1970 to work with 1968 Nobel Physics prize winner Professor Luis W. Alvarez. At Berkeley, Smoot and his colleagues designed experiments to find evidence of the big bang. Their research guided them to the study of cosmic background radiation.
"The addition of George to our board demonstrates Chabot's commitment to advance science education to the young people who visit and utilize our programs," said Alexander Zwissler, Chabot Space & Science Center Executive Director & CEO. "We embrace the opportunity for a Nobel Prize winner in physics to make a contribution to our mission and influence the next generation of scientists."