Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures

Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures

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Listen to exciting, non-technical talks on some of the most interesting developments in astronomy and space science. Founded in 1999, the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures are presented on six Wednesday evenings during each school year at Foothill College, in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. Speakers include a wide range of noted scientists, explaining astronomical developments in everyday language. The series is organized and moderated by Foothill's astronomy instructor emeritus Andrew Fraknoi and jointly sponsored by the Foothill College Physical Science, Math, and Engineering Division, the SETI Institute, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and the University of California Observatories (including the Lick Observatory.)
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Latest episodes of the podcast Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures

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The First Results from the James Webb Space Telescope (with Dr. Alex Filippenko) 12/03/2023
Our Boldest Effort to Answer our Oldest Question: Breakthrough-Listen Search for Intelligent Life 19/02/2023
Spacetime Symphony: Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes 25/01/2023
100 Years of Einstein's Relativity (And How it Underlies Our Modern Understanding of the Universe) 28/12/2022
Space Weather and the Question of Human Survivability (with Dr. Tom Berger) 12/12/2022
Is Anyone out There: The Hundred-Million Dollar "Breakthrough: Listen" Project 05/12/2022
A Planet for Goldilocks: Kepler and the Search for Living Worlds 30/10/2022
The Fast Radio Sky: A New Window on the Violent Universe 24/10/2022
Colliding Neutron Stars, Gravity Waves, and the Origin of the Heavy Elements 22/08/2022
When Mars Was Like Earth: Five Years of Exploration with the Curiosity Rover 01/08/2022
Rubble Piles in the Sky: The Science, Exploration, and Danger of Near-Earth Asteroids 15/07/2022
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (with Alan Stern & David Grinspoon) 24/06/2022
Do Humans Have What it Takes to Thrive in this Universe? 01/06/2022
A Sharper Image: Seeing Colliding Galaxies with Adaptive Optics (with Dr. Claire Max) 12/05/2022
Cosmobiology: Recent Progress in Cosmology, Exoplanets, and the Prerequisites for Life in the Universe 02/05/2022
Cosmology and Ambition: Losing the Nobel Prize (with Dr. Brian Keating) 07/04/2022
Planets Under Our Feet: The Caves on Earth, Mars, and Beyond (with Dr. Penelope Boston) 25/03/2022
Dark Star: The Invisible Universe of Brown Dwarfs (with Dr. Adam Burgasser) 15/03/2022
Charon, Pluto’s Companion: What We’re Learning from New Horizons (with Dr. Ross Beyer) 01/03/2022
Living with a Star: A Life-friendly Planetary Environment (with Dr. Michelle Thaller) 16/02/2022
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