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# Santa Monica College Friday astronomy series features new planets and JPL robotics talk
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/060705-story-20050607/
- Published: 2005-06-07T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T07:14:01.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Events, Pico, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

“The New Planets” — a look at the discovery over the past decade of more than 120 planets of other stars — will be the feature show June 10 and 17 at Santa Monica College’s Friday night astronomy series.

The guest lecture will be “Extending Our Senses.” Robert Staehle of the Jet Propulsion Lab will talk about how we use robot technology to extend our senses to extraterrestrial environments. The guest lecture will be Friday, June 24.

The feature show and guest lecture are at 8 p.m. Each is preceded by “The Night Sky Show” — which re-creates the night sky and provides the latest information on space exploration, at 7 p.m.

The astronomy shows are held in the John Drescher Planetarium, which features the state-of-the-art Digistar projection system. It is located on the second floor of Drescher Hall, 1900 Pico Blvd. The guest lecture is in Science Lecture Hall 140.

For information, call (310) 434-4223 or (310) 434-3000\. Take action at free UCLA film forum

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 7, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/060705.pdf?ref=smdp.com)