Ann Marie Cody, NASA Ames Research Center, works with the Kepler Space Telescope team on the K2 mission. She’ll talk about the Universe and its rocky and gaseous bodies. Dr. Cody will show how Kepler is illuminating the conditions surrounding planet formation by providing high-precision time series data on young stars and their protoplanetary disks, and discuss a recently discovered transiting planet around a newborn star in the Scorpius region.