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Astronomy on Tap
Astronomy on Tap
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Astronomy on Tap
Astronomy on Tap
Public Talk
Astronomy on Tap
Astronomy on Tap
Astronomy on Tap
Public Talk
Astronomy on Tap
Astronomy on Tap
Public Talk
Public Talk
Public Talk
Astronomy on Tap
Astronomy on Tap
Public Talk
Astronomy on Tap
Astronomy on Tap
Astronomy on Tap
Public Talk
Astronomy on Tap
Public Talk
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)
Building Super Star Clusters on Supercomputers
Benny Tsang (UCSB)
My Attraction to Magnets
Dan Read (Cardiff University)
Aug 8, 2018
Joel Parriott (American Astronomical Society)
Explosions in Space.
Maria Drout (Carnegie Observatories)
Spectroscopy: Telling you how the Universe really works.
Tobias Schmidt (UCSB)
Mission Gravity: What Newton never knew.
Roger Freedman (UCSB)
Dark Forces that Shape the Universe
Julio Navarro (University of Victoria)
May 23, 2018
Gabriela González (Louisiana State University)
The Universe in Infrared Light
Rebecca Larson (UT Austin)
Astronomy, What is it good for?
Iair ("ya-eer") Arcavi (LCO/UCSB)
Astronomy - It's not just for Tesla drivers
Chuck McPartlin (SBAU)
The Sky is Alive with the Sound of Music
Greg Salvesen (UCSB)
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)
A Saturnian Farewell: Thirteen Years of Cassini
Joey Chatelain (LCO)
How Fast Can You Grow a Supermassive Black Hole?
Fred Davies (UCSB)
Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Stars
Duncan Brown (Syracuse University)
A Kilanova from Merging Neutron Stars
Andy Howell (LCO/UCSB)
Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Runaway Universe
Jeff Silverman (Samba TV)
The Science of Star Trek
Rachael Livermore (UT Austin)
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 17, 2017
Amy Mainzer (NASA)
Giant Rocks from Space: Threats or Treasures?
Tim Lister (LCO)
How to Fight an Undead Army of Galaxies
Kevin Bundy (UCSB)
Did Double Stars End the Cosmic Dark Ages?
Ylva Gotberg (University of Amsterdam)
The American Total Solar Eclipse of 2017
Andy Howell (LCO/UCSB)
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)
Cosmic Fog: Strange Clouds Around Our Galaxy
Mike McCourt (UCSB)
Black Holes: Nature's Beer Goggles
Greg Salvesen (UCSB)
