SVAstronomyLectures

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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 over the years have included a wide range of noted scientists, explaining astronomical developments in everyday language. A generous donation by one of our supporters is now enabling us to record the lectures and make them freely available to the public on the Web. 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), (all of whose links you can find below).

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SVAstronomyLectures

Videos

Copernicus 4.0: How the Views of Earth's Importance and the Search for Life are Changing.

Real-Time Collaborative Science Decisioning Systems for Moon to Mars human-robotic exploration.

Observing with the James Webb Space Telescope: Glimpsing the First Stars

Profound and Staggering: The Impact on Religion of the Discovery of Life around Other Stars

Europa Clipper: Exploring Jupiter's Ocean World

The Allure of the Multiverse: Beyond the Limits of Direct Observation

Past live streams

The Sun is Not Always Happy: Space Weather and the Question of Human Survivability

The Fast Radio Sky: A New Window on the Violent Universe

Do Humans Have What it Takes to Thrive in the Universe

Cosmobiology: Recent Progress in Cosmology

Dark Star: The Invisible Universe of Brown Dwarfs

Living with a Star: Creating and Maintaining a Life-Friendly Planet, in Our Solar System and Others

Popular videos

The Black Hole Wars: My Battle with Stephen Hawking

The Dawn of Creation: The First Two Billion Years

Ocean Worlds in the Outer Solar System

The Search for Intelligent Life Among the Stars: New Strategies

Finding the Next Earth: The Latest Results from Kepler

Report from the Planetary Frontier: The Latest from New Horizons at Pluto

Multiple playlists

Black Holes

Planetary Exploration

Dark Matter

Nobel Prize Winners!