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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Observing with the James Webb Space Telescope: Glimpsing the First Stars 2024-11-16
Profound and Staggering: The Impact on Religion of the Discovery of Life around Other Stars 2024-10-14
The Copernicus Complex: Are We Special in the Cosmos 2024-08-25
Black Widow Pulsars: The Vengeful Corpses of Stars 2024-07-09
Europa Clipper: Exploring Jupiter's Ocean World 2024-05-25
The Allure of the Multiverse (with Dr. Paul Halpern) 2024-04-24
The Black Hole Wars: My Battle with Stephen Hawking 2024-04-15
Black Holes and the Technology to Find Them 2024-04-10
Exploring the Gravitational Wave Universe 2024-02-21
Water Above, Water Below: The Many Roles of Water in Making Planets Habitable 2023-12-05
The Peril and Profit of Near-Earth Objects 2023-10-29
SPECIAL: An Interview with Frank Drake: The Founder of SETI Science (conducted by Andrew Fraknoi) 2023-07-17
Ashes to Ashes, Earth to Earth, Dust to Dust: The Birth and Death of Worlds 2023-07-14
An Eclipse Double-Header: Two North American Eclipses of the Sun in 2023 & 2024 (with Andrew Fraknoi) 2023-05-18
The First Results from the James Webb Space Telescope (with Dr. Alex Filippenko) 2023-03-13
Our Boldest Effort to Answer our Oldest Question: Breakthrough-Listen Search for Intelligent Life 2023-02-20
Spacetime Symphony: Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes 2023-01-26
100 Years of Einstein's Relativity (And How it Underlies Our Modern Understanding of the Universe) 2022-12-29
Space Weather and the Question of Human Survivability (with Dr. Tom Berger) 2022-12-12
Is Anyone out There: The Hundred-Million Dollar "Breakthrough: Listen" Project 2022-12-05
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