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SUMMARY:The history of the Universe in a nutshell: from the Big Bang to life and the end of time
DESCRIPTION:
 John Mather, a 2006 Nobel Prize winner, will tell 
 the story of how we got here, how the Universe 
 began with a Big Bang, how it could have 
 produced an Earth where sentient beings can 
 live, and how those beings are discovering their 
 history.  \n
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 Mather was Project Scientist 
 for NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) 
 satellite, which measured the spectrum (the 
 color) of the heat radiation from the Big Bang, 
 discovered hot and cold spots in that radiation, 
 and hunted for the first objects that 
 formed after the great explosion.  \n
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 He will 
 explain Einstein's biggest mistake, how Edwin 
 Hubble discovered the expansion of the universe, 
 how the COBE mission was built, and 
 how the COBE data support the Big Bang theory. 
  He will also show NASA's plans for the next 
 great telescope in space, the James Webb Space 
 Telescope.  It will look even farther back 
 in time than the Hubble Space Telescope and 
 will peer inside the dusty cocoons where stars 
 and planets are being born today. It is capable 
 of examining Earth-like planets around 
 other stars using the transit technique, and 
 future missions may find signs of life.  \n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Dept. of Physics and Astronomy\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.pa.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: Brian O'Shea\n
 Contact email: oshea@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://www.pa.msu.edu/seminars/colloquium_2011_Fall/\n
LOCATION:1410 BPS
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