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The Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures Podcasts
The Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures Podcasts
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Public lectures by noted astronomers on new developments in our exploration of the universe. These lectures are recorded at Foothill College near San Francisco. |
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3. Saturn's Moon Titan: A World with Rivers, Lakes, and Possibly Even Life
| Titan, Saturn"s largest satellite, is the only moon with a thick atmosphere. In many ways, Titan is a cold twin of the Earth, with liquid methane playing the same role there as water plays on our planet. Life on Earth is based on liquid water; could there be life on Titan based on liquid methane? Dr
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| Published on Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:19:16 -0700 - Format: MPEG Audio
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4. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had it Coming
| Dr. Michael Brown of Caltech shares the inside story of how he discovered "other Pluto"s" out there beyond Neptune, including Eris, which is now known to be about the same size as Pluto. He named that new world for the goddess of discord, because, as he describes with his characteristic humor, its d
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| Published on Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:55:57 -0800 - Format: MPEG Audio
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5. Catching Shadows: Kepler's Search for New Worlds
| NASA"s Kepler spacecraft, launched in March 2009, is a mission designed to survey a slice of the Milky Way Galaxy to identify planets orbiting other stars. Kepler has the advantage that it can find planets as small as Earth in or near the habitable zone of each star. Dr. Natalie Batalha (San Jose St
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| Published on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:43:35 -0800 - Format: MPEG Audio
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6. The Ultimate Fate of the Solar System (and the Music of the Spheres)
| The long-term fate of the planets in our Solar System has intrigued astronomers and mathematicians for over 300 years. Although the planetary orbits are often held up as a model of clockwork regularity, the Solar System is in truth an extremely complex and chaotic system. Dr. Gregory Laughlin of the
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| Published on Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:01:37 -0800 - Format: MPEG Audio
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7. Hearts of Darkness: Black Holes in Space
| Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape! No longer confined to the imaginations of science-fiction writers and theoretical physicists, black holes have recently been discovered in large numbers by observational astronomers. Learn about the
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| Published on Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:06:51 -0700 - Format: MPEG Audio
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8. A Scientist Looks at "Doomsday 2012" and the Rise of Cosmophobia
| Many people have heard the rumors that the world will end in 2012 -- and that some astronomical event or alignment is to blame. Dr. David Morrison of the NASA Lunar Science Institute and SETI Institute discusses the public fears and how they have been enflamed by the media. He sets our minds at ease
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| Published on Tue, 11 May 2010 09:57:01 -0700 - 20 MB Format: MPEG Audio
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9. The Many Mysteries of Antimatter
| Antimatter is just like matter with all its properties reversed. Scientists think there may have been equal amount of matter and antimatter in the early universe, and yet today we have lots of matter and very little antimatter. How and when that imbalance developed is one of the great mysteries in u
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| Published on Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:44:40 -0700 - 18 MB Format: MPEG Audio
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10. The Search for Intelligent Life Among the Stars: New Strategies
| A half-century ago, astronomers began trying to "eavesdrop" for radio messages from nearby star systems. However, today, SETI researchers continue to point their telescopes at individual stars, on the assumption that technically advanced societies will inhabit a watery world like our own. Dr. Seth S
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| Published on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:27:18 -0800 - Format: MPEG Audio
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