Events Calendar

Solar System Expedition

Thursday, May 14

6:30 pm

Location: Shorewood Village Center

Explore the solar system and marvel at the Sun’s powerful flares, Jupiter’s swirling storms, and some intriguing moons. Travel to the icy worlds of the Kuiper Belt and behold the latest discoveries from Juno and New Horizons.

Enter our drawing for a chance to win your very own telescope and start exploring the cosmos from home!

 

Dr. Jean Creighton has always been inspired by how the cosmos works. She was born in Toronto, Ontario and grew up in Athens, Greece where her mother claims she showed a great interest in how stars form from the age of five. She studied physics at the University of Athens and went on to earn a Master’s degree from Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Waterloo. She began teaching astronomy at UW-Milwaukee in 1999 and, in 2007, became director of the UWM Manfred Olson Planetarium. In 2014, she was selected by NASA to be an Airborne Astronomy Ambassador and to spend 20 hours in the stratosphere on SOFIA, the largest moving observatory in the world. She is very proud to have shared the cosmos with over 200,000 members of the community.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Shorewood Public Library.