Past Stargazing Lectures
Cosmic Gold Mining
Shreya Anand - April 19, 2024 (#98: Poster, Photos, Video)
SPHEREx: Zooming Out to See the Big Picture
Jamie Bock - March 15, 2024 (#97: Poster, Photos, Video)
Chasing the Solar Atmosphere using Eclipses and the Parker Solar Probe
Gabriel Muro - February 16, 2024 (#96: Poster, Photos, Video)
Supernovae: The Brilliant Endings of Massive Stars
Michael Pajkos - January 12, 2024 (#95: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Galactic Underworld: The Milky Way's Sea of Dormant Black Holes
Kareem El-Badry - December 8, 2023 (#94: Poster, Photos, Video)
Stellar Tantrums and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Yuping Huang - November 17, 2023 (#93: Poster, Photos, Video)
FARSIDE: Exploring the Cosmos from the Moon
Nivedita Mahesh - September 29, 2023 (#92: Poster, Photos, Video)
Galaxy Clusters Collide: The Most Energetic Events since the Big Bang
Emily Silich - August 25, 2023 (#91: Poster, Photos, Video)
¿Cuál es la edad de una estrella?
Rocío Kiman - August 18, 2023 (#90: Poster, Photos, Video)
How to Catch a Supernova (or One of its Transient Friends)
Ashish Mahabal - July 28, 2023 (#89: Poster, Photos, Video)
Searching for Extrasolar Planets with the Keck Planet Finder
Andrew Howard - July 14, 2023 (#88: Poster, Photos, Video)
Finding Supermassive Black Holes with Pulsars
Aaron Johnson - June 30, 2023 (#87: Poster, Photos, Video)
Dark Matter: The Elusive Fibers of the Universe
Xuejian Shen - June 23, 2023 (#86: Poster, Photos, Video)
Seeing the Invisible: Astronomical Radio Waves
Nitika Yadlapalli - May 26, 2023 (#85: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Quest for Cosmic Dawn: First Results from the James Webb Space Telescope
Richard Ellis - April 14, 2023 (#84: Poster, Photos, Video)
Black Holes, Spaghettification, and Time Travel
Nils Deppe - March 24, 2023 (#83: Poster, Photos, Video)
Can Exoplanets Keep Their Atmospheres Long Enough for Life to Develop?
Jessica Spake - February 24, 2023 (#82: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Green Comet in Context
Cameron Hummels - February 7, 2023 (Poster, Photos, Video)
Fireworks from Black Holes Devouring Stars
Yuhan Yao - January 20, 2023 (#81: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Invisible Atmospheres of Galaxies
Iryna Butsky - December 2, 2022 (#80: Poster, Photos, Video)
Finding Earth 2.0
Dimitri Mawet - October 28, 2022 (#79: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Mystery of Cosmic Rays
Kathryn Plant - September 30, 2022 (#78: Poster, Photos, Video)
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
Tony Rodriguez - August 5, 2022 (#77: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Dynamic Lives of Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and White Dwarfs in Globular Clusters
Kyle Kremer - July 15, 2022 (#76: Poster, Photos, Video)
Planetquake: what vibrations can tell us about the interiors of gas giant planets
Janosz Dewberry - June 3, 2022 (#75: Poster, Photos, Video)
Neutron Stars: Where Extreme Gravity Meets Extreme Matter
Katerina Chatziioannou - May 13, 2022 (#74: Poster, Photos, Video)
Black Holes and Gravitational Waves: Was Einstein Right?
Saul Teukolsky - April 8, 2022 (#73: Poster, Video)
Massive Binary Stars in Technicolor
Margaret Lazzarini - March 4, 2022 (#72: Poster, Video)
Mapping the Universe with Atoms and Molecules that Shine
Guochao Sun - February 4, 2022 (#71: Poster, Video)
How to Rip Apart a Star
Samantha Wu - January 14, 2022 (#70: Poster, Video)
A Brief History of the Fast Radio Burst Enigma
Liam Connor - December 12, 2021 (#69: Poster, Video)
The Enigmatic Corona: Powerhouse of Accreting Black Holes
Nikita Kamraj - November 19, 2021 (#68: Poster, Video)
Tiny but Powerful: Hunting for Extreme White Dwarfs
Ilaria Caiazzo - October 15, 2021 (#67: Poster, Video)
Quantum Technologies: From Fundamental Physics to Deep Space Communications
Maria Spiropulu - June 18, 2021 (#66: Poster, Video)
The Surprising World of Pulsars
Amruta Jaodand - May 21, 2021 (#65: Poster, Video)
Endless Hunt for Black Holes
Wenbin Lu - April 16, 2021 (#64: Poster, Video)
Astronomy on the Cusp: A Subject Driven by Technology (Not Ideas)
Shri Kulkarni - March 26, 2021 (#63: Poster, Video)
Searching for the Violent Births and Deaths of Stars with Night-Vision Goggles
Kishalay De - February 26, 2021 (#62: Poster, Video)
An Insider's Look Behind Science Headlines
Sarah Blunt - January 29, 2021 (#61: Poster, Video)
Big Questions, Small Telescopes, and Fast Astronomy
Vikram Ravi - December 4, 2020 (#60: Poster, Video)
The First Portrait of a Black Hole and Beyond
Katie Bouman - November 6, 2020 (#59: Poster, Video)
Trying to Prove Einstein Wrong
Agnès Ferté - October 9, 2020 (#58: Poster, Video)
The Exceptional Astronomical Discoveries of the Ancient Greeks
Michael Zhang - September 4, 2020 (#57: Poster, Video)
The Explosive Origin of the Elements
Andrew Emerick - August 7, 2020 (#56: Poster, Video)
You'll Know It When You See It: Defining, Describing, and Detecting Life in the Universe
Cecilia Sanders - July 10, 2020 (#55: Poster, Video)
Measuring the Speed of Stars More Precisely Than Your Car's Speedometer
Ryan Rubenzahl - June 5, 2020 (#54: Poster, Video)
The Loneliest Galaxies in the Universe
Mia de los Reyes - May 8, 2020 (#53: Poster, Video)
The Circumgalactic Medium: The Gas Around Galaxies
Yuguang Chen - April 3, 2020 (#52: Poster, Video)
Real Images of Exoplanets (None of that Artist Conception Stuff)
Jason Wang - March 20, 2020 (#51: Poster, Video)
De los Atomos a los Agujeros Negros
Javier García - February 28, 2020 (#50: Poster, Video)
Galaxies are Cosmic Magnets
Gina Panopoulou - January 31, 2020 (#49: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Solar System's Volcanic Wonderland
Katherine de Kleer - December 6, 2019 (#48: Poster, Photos, Video)
Sounds of the Stars: Imaging Star Guts with Cosmic Music
Jim Fuller - November 1, 2019 (#47: Poster, Photos, Video)
Why is the Sky Dark at Night?
Alessandro Schillaci - October 4, 2019 (#46: Poster, Photos, Video)
Observing Black Holes
Marianne Heida - September 6, 2019 (#45: Poster, Photos, Video)
Galactic Archaeology: Digging Through the Remnants of Galaxies
Gina Duggan - August 9, 2019 (#44: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Dynamic Radio Sky
Dillon Dong - July 12, 2019 (#43: Poster, Photos, Video)
We Were The Discoverers: Witnessing the Exoplanet Revolution
Arpita Roy - June 7, 2019 (#42: Poster, Photos, Video)
A Star is Born
Mike Grudic - May 10, 2019 (#41: Poster, Photos, Video)
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope: Revealing the Invisible
Marja Seidel - April 12, 2019 (#40: Poster, Photos, Video)
Planet Nine from Outer Space
Mike Brown - March 15, 2019 (#39: Poster, Photos, Video)
Cosmic Gold: Neutron Star Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and the Origin of the Elements
Eliot Quataert - March 1, 2019 (#38: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Universe at Cosmic Noon
Rachel Theios - February 15, 2019 (#37: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Dawn of the Age of Gravitational-Wave and Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Jameson Rollins - January 20, 2019 (#36: Poster, Photos, Video)
Understanding the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
Cameron Hummels - December 14, 2018 (#35: Poster, Photos, Video)
Planets Big and Small
Eve Lee - November 16, 2018 (#34: Poster, Photos, Video)
Ceres, an Unexpectedly Active Dwarf Planet: Findings from the Dawn Mission
Bethany Ehlmann - October 12, 2018 (#33: Poster, Photos, Video)
Cosmic Cartography: A Billion Stars in Six Dimensions and the Gaia Revolution
Erik Petigura - September 14, 2018 (#32: Poster, Photos, Video)
Simulating Black Holes
Maria Okounkova - August 17, 2018 (#31: Poster, Photos, Video)
A Stellar Diamond Named Lucy
Donal O'Sullivan - July 20, 2018 (#30: Poster, Photos, Video)
Mysterious Flashes of Radio Waves from Deep Space
Gregg Hallinan - June 22, 2018 (#29: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Grand Tour: Exploring Planets Outside the Solar System
Heather Knutson - May 25, 2018 (#28: Poster, Photos, Video)
On the Road to a Billion Planets
Jessie Christiansen - April 20, 2018 (#27: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Truth About Black Holes
Leo Stein - March 23, 2018 (#26: Poster, Photos, Video)
Galaxies Aren't Great at Making Stars
Matt Orr - February 23, 2018 (#25: Poster, Photos, Video)
When Galaxies Collide: Snapshots of the Universe's Largest Battles
Anne Medling - January 27, 2018 (#24: Poster, Photos, Video)
Brown Dwarfs: Too Small a Star; Too Massive a Planet
Kaew Tinyanont - December 8, 2017 (#23: Poster, Photos, Video)
Cosmic Lenses: Bending Light with Gravity
Denise Schmitz - November 17, 2017 (#22: Poster, Photos, Video)
Cosmic Fireworks
Mansi Kasliwal - October 20, 2017 (#21: Poster, Photos, Video)
Where to Find Real Time Machines and How to Use Them
Andreas Faisst - September 22, 2017 (#20: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time
Sean Carroll - August 11, 2017 (#19: Poster, Photos, Video)
Understanding the Universe Using Gravitational Waves
Astrid Lamberts - July 14, 2017 (#18: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Origin of the Elements
Ivanna Escala - June 2, 2017 (#17: Poster, Photos, Video)
Simulating the Galaxies of our Universe
Andrew Wetzel - May 5, 2017 (#16: Poster, Photos, Video)
Why Stars Shine
Robyn Sanderson - March 31, 2017 (#15: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Elusive Origins of Hot Jupiters
Konstantin Batygin - March 3, 2017 (#14: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Science of Star Trek
Michael Wong - February 3, 2017 (#13: Poster, Photos, Video)
The Universe through X-ray Eyes
Fiona Harrison - January 13, 2017 (#12: Poster, Photos, Video)
ALMA: A Revolutionary New View of the Cosmos
Nick Scoville - December 2, 2016 (#11: Poster, Photos)
How to Prepare for the Great American Eclipse of 2017
Erika Hamden - November 4, 2016 (#10: Poster, Photos)
Cosmic Explosions through the Ages: Supernovae Seen with the Naked Eye
Jacob Jencson - October 7, 2016 (#9: Poster, Photos)
The Invisible Universe Revealed: From Glowing Dust to Spinning Stellar Corpses
Anna Ho - September 9, 2016 (#8: Poster, Photos)
You Can't Spell Exoplanets without Ex(ecutions)
Jessie Christiansen - August 12, 2016 (#7: Poster, Photos, Video)
Simulating the Universe on a Supercomputer
Cameron Hummels - July 8, 2016 (#6: Poster, Photos, Video)
Black Holes Don't Suck
Chiara Mingarelli - June 10, 2016 (#5: Poster, Photos)
The Air We (Can't) Breathe: A History of Air on Venus, Earth, and Mars
Jackie Villadsen - May 13, 2016 (#4: Poster, Photos, Video)
Astronomy from the Bottom of the Earth: Telescopes at the South Pole
Abby Crites - April 15, 2016 (#3: Poster, Photos, Video)
What Causes the Northern Lights? A Tour of Aurorae on Different Planets
Sebastian Piñeda - March 18, 2016 (#2: Poster, Video)
An Archaeological Road Trip with the Keck Telescopes
Evan Kirby - February 19, 2016 (#1: Poster, Video)