Posted at 1:33 a.m., Thursday, June 14, 2007
UH, PBS to present 'What's Up in the Universe?'
News Release
The next Institute for Astronomy public event will feature "What's Up in the Universe?" on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Institute for Astronomy Auditorium at its Manoa headquarters on Woodlawn Drive. This film looks at the human need to explore and ponders whether there is life elsewhere in the universe.The film features navigator Nainoa Thompson of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, planetary scientist and artist Dr. William Hartmann, who paints extraterrestrial landscapes, and planetary scientist and ballerina Robin Canup, who further explores the relation between art and science. Also appearing at length are extrasolar planet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, IfA planetary astronomer Tobias Owen, and IfA solar astronomer Jeffrey Kuhn.
IfA astronomer and executive producer Brent Tully and producer/director Susan Friedman will be present to discuss the film, which will be broadcast on PBS Hawai'i on July 14.
Tully is best known as the co-originator of the Tully-Fisher relation, which led to the current preferred estimate of the size and age of the universe. He was also the executive producer of the PBS NOVA show "The Runaway Universe."
Friedman is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with 20 years of experience in the field of education. She is currently on the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Many of her films have been aired on PBS.
Major funding for this project came from the National Science Foundation.
