The Solar System Zoo: a lecture with UPENN Professor Gary Bernstein
Discover the many fascinating members of our Solar System, how numerous small planets were found, and how they formed alongside the Sun.Learn why the question "How many planets are there?" is more complicated than it seems in this fun and informative presentation.Professor Bernstein's research centers on extracting gems of astronomical knowledge from large piles of astronomical images. Currently his group is pursuing two main science projects with the ~100,000 sky exposures of the Dark Energy Survey.Gravitational lensing is the deflection of light by gravity as predicted by General Relativity. These deflections can cause dramatic distortions of background objects, or subtle