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General Meeting
- Wednesday, March 19, 2025
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Guest Speaker: Ray Villard
Ray Villard has specialized in communicating astronomy to the general public for his entire career. As the Hubble News Chief for the Space Telescope Science Institute at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, he is responsible for disseminating the discoveries made with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Since Hubble's launch in 1990, Villard has reported on all newsworthy space telescope findings in over 1,400 press releases and exciting Hubble photographs. Villard has done numerous popular lectures, TV appearances, and articles related to space astronomy. He has earned several NASA service awards for popularizing the Hubble space shuttle servicing missions. In 2003, Villard published “Infinite Worlds” an illustrated guide to the discovery of exoplanets. He was nominated for the 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards as a co-writer for the National Geographic program, “Alien Earths,” which is based on his book. In 2025 Villard was advisor and co-author on the sixth edition of the popular astronomy guide “The Universe and Beyond.” |
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SLCC Redwood Road Campus Rampton Technology Building Auditorium 104 |
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