July 12, 2018 Page 7
Looking Up
“City of Astronomy” to Host Gathering of International Space Experts
Based on a Press Release from
Caltech, Provided by Bob Eklund
From July 14 to 22, the world’s leading
experts in space science will gather in
Pasadena, informally known as the City of
Astronomy [http://www.cityofastronomy.org],
for the 42nd assembly of the Committee on
Space Research, or COSPAR. Caltech is
hosting the meeting, with the support of the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed
by Caltech for NASA.
“We call Pasadena the City of Astronomy
because it’s home to many astronomy institutions,
such as Caltech and JPL, the Carnegie
Observatories and Mount Wilson and more,”
says Thomas (Tom) Prince [http://pma.caltech.
edu/content/thomas-tom-prince], the Ira S.
Bowen Professor of Physics at Caltech and
chair of the scientific organizing committee
for the COSPAR 2018 meeting. “It made
sense that Pasadena would host the entire
international community involved in space
science and exploration.”
Up to 2,500 participants are expected at the
meeting, taking place at the Pasadena Convention
Center and the Hilton Pasadena. Media
interested in attending with complimentary
registration should contact Laura Gordon by
emailing cospar2018@icsevents.com.
The meeting will feature talks, roundtable
discussions, and exhibits on a wide range
of space science subjects, including icy
worlds in our solar system, such as Jupiter’s
moon Europa; the search for life beyond
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Earth; upcoming space telescopes; Earth
climate science; exoplanets; and more. Prince
says that the European Space Agency’s Gaia
mission, which recently released a threedimensional
map containing more than one
billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy, will
be a hot topic.
“Even though the topic is space science,
the atmosphere is very much down to Earth,”
says Prince. “It’s a place for people to get
together and collaborate.”
“COSPAR was created by the United
Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of
Outer Space, at the dawn of the space age
and height of the Cold War, specifically to
facilitate exchanges between scientists in the
U.S. and former USSR,” says Gregg Vane,
a senior strategist for solar system exploration
at JPL and chair of the local organizing
committee for COSPAR 2018.
A public lecture [http://cospar2018.org/
scientific-program/public-lecture]—scheduled
for Wednesday, July 18 at 8 p.m. at the
Pasadena Civic Auditorium—will feature
Sara Seager, a planetary scientist and astrophysicist
at MIT. A panel discussion about
searching for life in the solar system will
follow, moderated by Bill Nye “The Science
Guy” and including Bethany Ehlmann, a
professor of planetary science at Caltech and
a JPL research scientist, and Kevin Hand, a
planetary scientist and astrobiologist at JPL.
At the same time as the COSPAR meeting,
Pasadena will host AstroFest 2018—a
week-long series of space-themed events and
activities for the public. AstroFest 2018 kicks
off July 14 at the Pasadena Convention Center
with exhibits, planetarium shows, and evening
stargazing. Activities later in the week include
Astronomy on Tap [https://magazine.caltech.
edu/post/pulsars-and-pretzels], an informal
evening at a local pub, where astronomers
and the public discuss everything from black
holes to bratwurst. A full list of events is
online at http://www.cityofastronomy.org/
astronomy-week-2018.
“We all share the same sky and its cosmic
treasures, and the occasion of COSPAR provides
an opportunity for the City of Astronomy
partnership to share those wonders with the
public during AstroFest,” says Janice Lee,
an astronomer at IPAC, Caltech’s science
and data center for astronomy, and chair of
AstroFest 2018.
COSPAR is celebrating its 60th anniversary
this year. It was founded in 1958—the same
year the U.S. launched the Explorer 1 [https://
www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/explorer-1] spacecraft,
a research satellite built and operated
Pasadena City Hall. by JPL. •
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at new worlds … to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.”
– Ellison S. Onizuka