SVAstronomyLectures - Channel
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Report from the Planetary Frontier: The Latest from New Horizons at Pluto
March 2, 2016 Dr. Jeff Moore (NASA Ames Research Center) On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons space... -
Black Widow Pulsars: The Vengeful Corpses of Stars
Jan. 22, 2014 Dr. Roger Romani (Stanford University) NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has... -
The Black Hole Wars: My Battle with Stephen Hawking
October 1, 2008 Dr. Leonard Susskind (Stanford University) Black holes, the collapsed remnants of... -
Lifting the Cosmic Veil: Highlights from a Decade of the Spitzer Space Telescope
Apr. 16, 2014 Michael Bicay (NASA Ames Research Center) As the infrared cousin to Hubble, the Spi... -
The Chelyabinsk Meteor: Can We Survive a Bigger Impact?
Nov. 6, 2013 Dr. David Morrison (SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center) In February 2013, ... -
Brown Dwarfs and Free Floating Planets: When You are Just Too Small to be a Star
Apr. 17, 2013 Dr. Gibor Basri (University of California, Berkeley) The least massive star is six ... -
Hearts of Darkness: Black Holes in Space
May 19, 2010 Dr. Alex Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley) Black holes are regions of ...