Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures
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Feb 20, 2024
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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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The NASA Psyche mission: First Journey to an Unknown World
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Pictures of Distant Worlds
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Dark Energy in the Universe and the Largest Telescope Ever
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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The Search for Life on Saturn’s Intriguing Moon Enceladus
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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The Amazing Vera Rubin Observatory and Its Movie of the Sky
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Science at the Edge of the Solar System
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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New Worlds: Analyzing the Atmospheres of Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Copernicus 4.0: How the Views of Earth's Importance and the Search for Life are Changing
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Human-Robotic Exploration from the Moon to Mars
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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Observing with the James Webb Space Telescope: Glimpsing the First Stars
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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Profound and Staggering: The Impact on Religion of the Discovery of Life around Other Stars
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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The Copernicus Complex: Are We Special in the Cosmos
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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Black Widow Pulsars: The Vengeful Corpses of Stars
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Europa Clipper: Exploring Jupiter's Ocean World
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May 25, 2024 |
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The Allure of the Multiverse (with Dr. Paul Halpern)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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The Black Hole Wars: My Battle with Stephen Hawking
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Black Holes and the Technology to Find Them
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Exploring the Gravitational Wave Universe
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Water Above, Water Below: The Many Roles of Water in Making Planets Habitable
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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The Peril and Profit of Near-Earth Objects
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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SPECIAL: An Interview with Frank Drake: The Founder of SETI Science (conducted by Andrew Fraknoi)
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Ashes to Ashes, Earth to Earth, Dust to Dust: The Birth and Death of Worlds
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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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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May 18, 2023 |
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The First Results from the James Webb Space Telescope (with Dr. Alex Filippenko)
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Our Boldest Effort to Answer our Oldest Question: Breakthrough-Listen Search for Intelligent Life
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Spacetime Symphony: Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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100 Years of Einstein's Relativity (And How it Underlies Our Modern Understanding of the Universe)
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Space Weather and the Question of Human Survivability (with Dr. Tom Berger)
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Is Anyone out There: The Hundred-Million Dollar "Breakthrough: Listen" Project
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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A Planet for Goldilocks: Kepler and the Search for Living Worlds
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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The Fast Radio Sky: A New Window on the Violent Universe
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Colliding Neutron Stars, Gravity Waves, and the Origin of the Heavy Elements
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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When Mars Was Like Earth: Five Years of Exploration with the Curiosity Rover
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Rubble Piles in the Sky: The Science, Exploration, and Danger of Near-Earth Asteroids
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (with Alan Stern & David Grinspoon)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Do Humans Have What it Takes to Thrive in this Universe?
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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A Sharper Image: Seeing Colliding Galaxies with Adaptive Optics (with Dr. Claire Max)
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May 12, 2022 |
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Cosmobiology: Recent Progress in Cosmology, Exoplanets, and the Prerequisites for Life in the Universe
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May 03, 2022 |
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Cosmology and Ambition: Losing the Nobel Prize (with Dr. Brian Keating)
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Planets Under Our Feet: The Caves on Earth, Mars, and Beyond (with Dr. Penelope Boston)
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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Dark Star: The Invisible Universe of Brown Dwarfs (with Dr. Adam Burgasser)
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Charon, Pluto’s Companion: What We’re Learning from New Horizons (with Dr. Ross Beyer)
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Living with a Star: A Life-friendly Planetary Environment (with Dr. Michelle Thaller)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Beyond: Our Future in Space (with Dr. Chris Impey)
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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Ocean Worlds in Our Solar System (with Dr. Kevin Hand)
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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Meet the Neighbors: Exploring Planets Orbiting Nearby Stars (with Dr. Courtney Dressing)
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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The Biggest Sky Survey Ever Undertaken: Exploring the Universe with the Rubin Observatory (with Dr. Phil Marshall)
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Postcards from Mars: The Latest from Our Robot Explorers (with Dr. Jim Bell)
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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The Last Stargazers: Behind the Scenes in Astronomy (with Dr. Emily Levesque)
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Will the 21st Century be the Time we Discover Life Beyond Earth (with Dr. Jill Tarter)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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The Monster Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way (with Nobel Laureate Andrea Ghez)
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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Encounter with Ultima Thule: The Most Distant Object Humanity Has Ever Explored (with Dr. Jeff Moore)
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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What Does a Black Hole Look Like: How We Got our First Picture (With Prof. Eliot Quataert)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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A Little Talk about Aliens with Dr. Adam Frank
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Planet 9 from Outer Space with Dr. Michael Brown
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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Black Hole Survival Guide with Dr. Janna Levin
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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Lick Observatory During Pandemics: 1918 and 2020 (with Dr. Elinor Gates)
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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The Hunt for Dark Matter in the Universe with Dr. Tom Shutt
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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How a Smooth Early Universe Grew into Everyone You Know (with Nobel Laureate John Mather)
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Jun 20, 2021 |