Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures
Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures
Latest Episodes
Why Do We Exist: The Nine Realms of the Universe that Make You Possible
May 20, 2026Dr, Hakeem Oluseyi (CEO, Astronomical Society of the Pacific)n his new book, Why Do We Exist, Dr. Oluseyi suggests that the story of our existence can be told as a passage through nine interwoven realms—each r...
The NASA Psyche mission: First Journey to an Unknown World
Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley,Apr. 8, 2026.The NASA Psyche mission is on its way to orbit a small but immensely ancient world in our asteroid belt: A metallic object, ...
Pictures of Distant Worlds
A nontechnical talk by Dr. Bruce Macintosh (University of California Observatories)Mar. 11, 2026In the past three decades, more than 6000 planets have been discovered orbiting other stars. Advances in technology have allowed...
Dark Energy in the Universe and the Largest Telescope Ever
A nontechnical talk by Dr. Robert Kirshner, Jan 28, 2026.One hundred years ago, Edwin Hubble showed that the universe is expanding. In the 1990s, astronomers found that the expansion is not slowing down, as expected, but speeding up. Thi...
The Search for Life on Saturn’s Intriguing Moon Enceladus
Dr. Alfonso Davila (NASA Ames Research Center)Nov. 24, 2025In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made a groundbreaking discovery—it found massive plumes of ice and gas erupting from the south pole of Enceladus, a small but geological...
