The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge sponsors free programs for the general public on the third Thursday of every month throughout the year. The lectures are intended for high school age and older audiences but children are also welcome.
Parking is available.
In the cosmic cast of characters, there are shining stars and an assortment of planets orbiting some of those stars like bit players. And then there are faint objects of intermediate size called brown dwarfs. Huge, cold, lonely, and of fuzzy origin, brown dwarfs seem to fit somewhere in between stars and planets. Observatory Night programs are held in the Phillips Auditorium of the Center for Astrophysics at 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, about one mile west of Harvard Square. Entrance to the auditorium is at the west of the Center complex, near the Madison Street entrance and large parking lot.