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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Ashes to Ashes, Earth to Earth, Dust to Dust: The Birth and Death of Worlds
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2023-07-14
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An Eclipse Double-Header: Two North American Eclipses of the Sun in 2023 & 2024 (with Andrew Fraknoi)
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2023-05-18
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The First Results from the James Webb Space Telescope (with Dr. Alex Filippenko)
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2023-03-13
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Our Boldest Effort to Answer our Oldest Question: Breakthrough-Listen Search for Intelligent Life
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2023-02-20
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Spacetime Symphony: Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes
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2023-01-26
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100 Years of Einstein's Relativity (And How it Underlies Our Modern Understanding of the Universe)
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2022-12-29
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Space Weather and the Question of Human Survivability (with Dr. Tom Berger)
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2022-12-12
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Is Anyone out There: The Hundred-Million Dollar "Breakthrough: Listen" Project
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2022-12-05
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A Planet for Goldilocks: Kepler and the Search for Living Worlds
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2022-10-31
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The Fast Radio Sky: A New Window on the Violent Universe
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2022-10-25
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Colliding Neutron Stars, Gravity Waves, and the Origin of the Heavy Elements
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2022-08-23
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When Mars Was Like Earth: Five Years of Exploration with the Curiosity Rover
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2022-08-02
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Rubble Piles in the Sky: The Science, Exploration, and Danger of Near-Earth Asteroids
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2022-07-15
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Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (with Alan Stern & David Grinspoon)
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2022-06-24
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Do Humans Have What it Takes to Thrive in this Universe?
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2022-06-01
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A Sharper Image: Seeing Colliding Galaxies with Adaptive Optics (with Dr. Claire Max)
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2022-05-12
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Cosmobiology: Recent Progress in Cosmology, Exoplanets, and the Prerequisites for Life in the Universe
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2022-05-03
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Cosmology and Ambition: Losing the Nobel Prize (with Dr. Brian Keating)
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2022-04-08
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Planets Under Our Feet: The Caves on Earth, Mars, and Beyond (with Dr. Penelope Boston)
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2022-03-26
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Dark Star: The Invisible Universe of Brown Dwarfs (with Dr. Adam Burgasser)
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2022-03-15
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