Film Night July – Harmony of the Worlds
July 27 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
We continue our revisiting of The Cosmos Series.
Episode 3:
Subject: History of astronomy from astrology to Kepler’s laws; Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe, Galileo; scientific method triumph. 45 Years Later:
Kepler Space Telescope (2009–2018) discovered thousands of exoplanets using transit method, validating Kepler’s laws on a galactic scale.
Gaia mission (2013–) mapped precise positions and motions of >1 billion stars, refining galactic structure.
General relativity tests passed with ever-higher precision (e.g., gravitational waves, LIGO 2015).