The search for distant planets will be the topic of a public lecture by Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Admission is free.
He will focus on the extrasolar planet search program under way at the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton and at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Vogt and his coworkers are currently surveying more than 700 nearby sun-like stars, looking for evidence of planets.