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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)

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Building Super Star Clusters on Supercomputers
Benny Tsang (UCSB)

My Attraction to Magnets
Dan Read (Cardiff University)

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Explosions in Space.
Maria Drout (Carnegie Observatories)

Spectroscopy: Telling you how the Universe really works.
Tobias Schmidt (UCSB)

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Mission Gravity: What Newton never knew.
Roger Freedman (UCSB)

Dark Forces that Shape the Universe
Julio Navarro (University of Victoria)

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The Universe in Infrared Light
Rebecca Larson (UT Austin)

Astronomy, What is it good for?
Iair ("ya-eer") Arcavi (LCO/UCSB)

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Astronomy - It's not just for Tesla drivers
Chuck McPartlin (SBAU)

The Sky is Alive with the Sound of Music
Greg Salvesen (UCSB)

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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)

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A Saturnian Farewell: Thirteen Years of Cassini
Joey Chatelain (LCO)

How Fast Can You Grow a Supermassive Black Hole?
Fred Davies (UCSB)

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Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Stars
Duncan Brown (Syracuse University)

A Kilanova from Merging Neutron Stars
Andy Howell (LCO/UCSB)

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Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Runaway Universe
Jeff Silverman (Samba TV)

The Science of Star Trek
Rachael Livermore (UT Austin)

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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)

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Giant Rocks from Space: Threats or Treasures?
Tim Lister (LCO)

How to Fight an Undead Army of Galaxies
Kevin Bundy (UCSB)

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Did Double Stars End the Cosmic Dark Ages?
Ylva Gotberg (University of Amsterdam)

The American Total Solar Eclipse of 2017
Andy Howell (LCO/UCSB)

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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)

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Cosmic Fog: Strange Clouds Around Our Galaxy
Mike McCourt (UCSB)

Black Holes: Nature's Beer Goggles
Greg Salvesen (UCSB)

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The Outer Solar System: Pluto and Friends
Sarah Greenstreet (LCO/UCSB)

Classical Novae: Inside Out Stars Evolving in Reverse
Bill Wolf (UCSB)

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Dwarf Novae: The Hiccups of Vampire Stars
Matt Coleman (UCSB)

Project Starshot and DEEP-IN: Humanity's First Interstellar Missions
Phil Lubin (UCSB)

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Bending Light to Find New Worlds
Rachel Street (LCO)

Explosions in Space! How to Catch a Supernova
Griffin Hosseinzadeh (LCO/UCSB)

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A Search for the Stolen Starlight
Haley Gomez (Cardiff University)

Jack Photon: A Story of Light
Edward Gomez (LCO)

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The Longest Time Ago in the Galaxy Farthest Away: Finding the First Galaxies in the Universe
Charlotte Mason (UCSB & UCLA)

Colors and Shadows: Discovering New Worlds Around Other Stars
Rob Siverd (LCO/UCSB)

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The Science of Star Wars and The Force Awakens.
Andy Howell & Chelsea Harris (LCO and UC Berkeley)

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Intergalactic Groundhog Day: Rewatching a Supernova Through a Gravitational Lens
Curtis McCully (LCO/UCSB)

Catching Stars Being Town Apart by Super-Massive Black Holes
Iair ("ya-eer") Arcavi (LCO/UCSB)

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Stellar Surfing: Using Waves to See Inside Stars
Matteo Cantiello (UCSB)

Dark Energy and the Expansion of the Universe
Andy Howell (LCO/UCSB)