Scott Hildreth retired in 2024 after working at Chabot for 35 years.  He is still involved giving planetarium shows and serving on the retiree board. He studied Math & Astrophysics at UC Davis and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and Astrophysics at UC Berkeley in grad school. He worked with NASA writing about results from the Hubble Space Telescope, reviewing proposals for space missions & developing labs using data from satellites observing the Sun and planets around other stars. In 2022, he was one of the first community college faculty to work on NASA's SOFIA Airborne IR Observatory. He is a recipient of the Reed L. Buffington award for teaching, and loves sharing Astronomy & Physics and how much they are actually a part of our lives.