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In addition to the Kavli Institute, MIT also has a very active planeteray science department. While this is not the traditional audience of the Cool Stars, an increasing number of exoplanets is physically characterized through observtations and, in the same way as we interpret stars with the sun in mind, exoplanet researchers will need closer contact with those groups that aim to understand the bodies on our own solar system through remote sensing and experiments physically located on comets or planets.  The third institution is Boston University.   Astronomy was the first science to be taught systematically at Boston University (BU). Professor Judson Boardman Coit was hired as an Assistant Professor of Astronomy in 1882. Since BU did not yet have any telescopes, Coit led his students to Boston Common Observe stars. Early scientific work at BU included observations of sunspots. Much later, in 1957, a young astronomer from England, Gerald S. Hawkins, who had been working at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory next to the Harvard Observatory in Cambridge, was hired by the Physics Department of Boston University to teach astronomy. In 1966, Hawkins, who had already become a full professor, published his famous book, Stonehenge Decoded, which brought him great publicity. He used this publicity to convince the University to establish a new Department of Astronomy, which formally became an independent department in the fall of 1966. Hawkins was named the first Chairman of the Astronomy Department, which had two other full-time members. Today, the BU Department of Astronomy consists of 15 full-time faculty, covering a wide range of research topics, including space physics, planetary science, star and planet formation, extrasolar planets, extragalactic studies and cosmology. The Discovery Channel Telescope (the “DCT”) is a new, state-of-the art, 4.3-meter optical and near-infrared telescope located in Happy Jack, Arizona, approximately 40 miles southwest of Flagstaff. The DCT is owned and operated by Lowell Observatory with support from Discovery Communications, Inc., Boston University, the University of Maryland, the University of Toledo and Northern Arizona University. In October of 2011, BU and Lowell Observatory signed a formal agreement that grants BU astronomers access to the DCT in perpetuity. In addition to carrying out forefront astronomical science with the DCT, members of the BU  Department of Astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences will be working with their colleagues in the School of Education and the College of Communications to build a strong program of education and public outreach, centered on modern astronomical science and the DCT.