Astronomy on Tap events
Due to COVID-19 all in-person events are currently cancelled
Feb 5, 2020
How To Draw A Fuzzy Doughnut: A Portrait Of The Largest Black Hole In Our Galaxy
Sean Ressler (UCSB)
Betelgeuse Betelgeuse Betelgeuse: Is it about to explode?
Jared Goldberg & Evan Bauer (UCSB)
Nov 6, 2019
Dark Matter, Black Holes and Gaia
Łukasz Wyrzykowski (Warsaw University)
Exploding Stars and how to explode them
Jared Goldberg (UCSB)
Oct 2, 2019
Classical Astronomy: A Stellar Legacy
Joey Chatelain (LCO)
Blunders in Space
Mirek Brandt (LCO)
Aug 7, 2019
What's Shakin on Mars? Martian Seismology with InSight
Bruce Banerdt (NASA JPL)
Run for your Life! Earthquakes and Tsunamis in Santa Barbara
Sandy Seale (LCO/UCSB)
Jun 5, 2019
Alien Zombie Comets
Tabby Boyajian (Louisiana State University)
What's new with Gravitational Waves
Duncan Brown (Syracuse University)
May 1, 2019
Hunting for Dark Galaxies.
Sukanya Chakrabarti (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Apr 3, 2019
What is Dark Matter?
Justin Read (University of Surrey)
Chasing Dark Matter with the Gaia Enceladus
Lina Necib (Caltech)
Mar 6, 2019
The Galaxy Ecosystem
Stephanie Ho (UCSB)
Feb 6, 2019
The Voyagers and Their Interstellar Records Have Left the Solar System
Andy Howell (LCO/UCSB)
Dec 5, 2018
The Microlensing Odyssey
Etienne Bachelet (LCO)
Astronomical Ballooning from Antarctica
Kristina Davis (UCSB)
Oct 3, 2018
How to Wake Up a Monster (Supermassive Black Holes, Galaxy Crashes, and all the rest..)
Emanuele Paolo Farina (UCSB)
New Horizons: From Pluto to Ultima Thule, Infinity and Beyond
Tim Lister (LCO)
Sep 5, 2018
Building Super Star Clusters on Supercomputers
Benny Tsang (UCSB)
My Attraction to Magnets
Dan Read (Cardiff University)
Aug 1, 2018
Explosions in Space.
Maria Drout (Carnegie Observatories)
Spectroscopy: Telling you how the Universe really works.
Tobias Schmidt (UCSB)
Jun 6, 2018
Mission Gravity: What Newton never knew.
Roger Freedman (UCSB)
Dark Forces that Shape the Universe
Julio Navarro (University of Victoria)
May 2, 2018
The Universe in Infrared Light
Rebecca Larson (UT Austin)
Astronomy, What is it good for?
Iair ("ya-eer") Arcavi (LCO/UCSB)
Apr 4, 2018
Astronomy - It's not just for Tesla drivers
Chuck McPartlin (SBAU)
The Sky is Alive with the Sound of Music
Greg Salvesen (UCSB)
Mar 7, 2018
How to Take a Picture of an Extra-solar World.
Isabel Lipartito (UCSB)
From Sputnik to Tesla: The Things We Launch into Space
Monica Turner (LCO)
Feb 7, 2018
A Saturnian Farewell: Thirteen Years of Cassini
Joey Chatelain (LCO)
How Fast Can You Grow a Supermassive Black Hole?
Fred Davies (UCSB)
Dec 6, 2017
Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Stars
Duncan Brown (Syracuse University)
A Kilanova from Merging Neutron Stars
Andy Howell (LCO/UCSB)
Jul 12, 2017
Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Runaway Universe
Jeff Silverman (Samba TV)
The Science of Star Trek
Rachael Livermore (UT Austin)
Jun 14, 2017
A Brief History of LCO: What it Takes to Run a Worldwide Observatory
Brian Haworth and Eric Saunders (LCO)
Hunting for Dark Matter: The Underground Search for the Missing Universe
Sally Shaw (UCSB)
May 10, 2017
Giant Rocks from Space: Threats or Treasures?
Tim Lister (LCO)
How to Fight an Undead Army of Galaxies
Kevin Bundy (UCSB)
Apr 5, 2017
Did Double Stars End the Cosmic Dark Ages?
Ylva Gotberg (University of Amsterdam)
The American Total Solar Eclipse of 2017
Andy Howell (LCO/UCSB)
Mar 1, 2017
Astounding facts about the Universe and how we observe it.
Curtis McCully, Sara Greenstreet, Rachel Street, Charlotte Mason, Todd Boroson, Nikolas Volgenau, Etienne Bachelet, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Tim Lister, Greg Salvesen and Iair ("ya-eer") Arcavi (LCO/UCSB)