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Listen to exciting, non-technical talks on some of the most interesting developments in astronomy and space science. Founded in 1999, the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures are presented on six Wednesday evenings during each school year at Foothill College, in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. Speakers include a wide range of noted scientists, explaining astronomical developments in everyday language. The series is organized and moderated by Foothill's astronomy instructor emeritus Andrew Fraknoi and jointly sponsored by the Foothill College Physical Science, Math, and Engineering Division, the SETI Institute, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and the University of California Observatories (including the Lick Observatory.)
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Signup to Generate a PitchListen to exciting, non-technical talks on some of the most interesting developments in astronomy and space science. Founded in 1999, the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures are presented on six Wednesday evenings during each school year at Foothill College, in the heart of California's Silicon Valley. Speakers include a wide range of noted scientists, explaining astronomical developments in everyday language.
Recent episodes include "The Search for Earth 2.0" (22 October 2026, 64 minutes), "Why Do We Exist: The Nine Realms of the Universe that Make You Possible" (27 May 2026, 80 minutes), and "The NASA Psyche mission: First Journey to an Unknown World" (15 April 2026, 76 minutes).
Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 75 minutes across 61 episodes.
Booking probability for Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures requires a Pod Score of 81 or higher. Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures's contact route on record: public web form.
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Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures is a science podcast with 61 episodes published.
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Episode #1
Oct. 7, 2026 Jessie Christiansen (CalTech) "The Search for Earth 2.0: Why We Think It Exists, & How We’re Going to Find it " For thousands of years, we’ve wondered if the Earth is unique, or if there are other Earths...
Episode #6
<p>May 20, 2026</p><p>Dr, Hakeem Oluseyi (CEO, Astronomical Society of the Pacific)</p><p>n his new book, Why Do We Exist, Dr. Oluseyi suggests that the story of our existence can be told as a passage through nine...
Episode #5
<p>Dr. Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley,</p><p>Apr. 8, 2026.</p><p>The NASA Psyche mission is on its way to orbit a small but immensely ancient world in our...
Episode #4
<p>A nontechnical talk by Dr. Bruce Macintosh (University of California Observatories)</p><p>Mar. 11, 2026</p><p>In the past three decades, more than 6000 planets have been discovered orbiting other stars. Advances in...
Episode #3
<p>A nontechnical talk by Dr. Robert Kirshner, Jan 28, 2026.</p><p>One hundred years ago, Edwin Hubble showed that the universe is expanding. In the 1990s, astronomers found that the expansion is not slowing down, as...
Episode #2
<p>Dr. Alfonso Davila (NASA Ames Research Center)</p><p>Nov. 24, 2025</p><p>In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft made a groundbreaking discovery—it found massive plumes of ice and gas erupting from the south pole of...
Episode #1
<p>A Nontechnical talk by Dr. Steven Kahn (University of California, Berkeley)</p><p>Oct. 8, 2025</p><p>The amazing Vera Rubin Observatory is a unique astronomy facility just built in Chile, with the largest digital...
Episode #6
<p>A Talk by Dr. Oliver White (SETI Institute)</p><p>May 28, 2025</p><p>Ten years ago, the New Horizons spacecraft flew by the Pluto system and revealed an unexpectedly diverse range of landscapes on that dwarf planet...
Episode #5
<p>Non-technical Talk by Prof. Jonathan Fortney (U. of California, Santa Cruz) <br/>Apr. 9, 2025</p><p><br/>Over 6000 planets have now been found around other stars, but we only have information about what their...
Episode #4
<p> Mar. 5, 2025</p><p> Dr. Simon Steel (SETI Institute)</p><p>Dr. Steel discusses the Copernican revolution and how it changed humanity's view of its place in the universe. He then talked about other "Copernican"...
Episode #3
<p>Jan. 29, 2025<br/>Dr. Darlene Lim (NASA Ames Research Center)<br/><br/>NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) is a planned mission to go to the South Pole of the Moon and get a close-up view...
Episode #2
<p>Nov. 13, 2024<br/>Dr. Dan Coe (Space Telescope Science Institute)<br/><br/>The Webb Telescope was designed to look back in time, to study the first generation of stars, and reveal our cosmic origins. Now in its...
Episode #1
<p>Recorded Oct. 9, 2024<br/>Astronomers have now discovered thousands of planets in orbit around other stars. Dr. Weintraub discusses those discoveries, and predicts the progress astronomers are likely to make in their...
Episode #1
<p>With Prof. Caleb Scharf (Columbia University)<br/><br/>Is humanity on Earth special or unexceptional? Extraordinary discoveries in astronomy and biology have revealed a universe filled with endlessly diverse...
Episode #3
<p>With Dr. Roger Romani (Stanford University):<br/>NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has revealed a violent high-energy universe full of stellar explosions, black hole jets, and pulsing stars. These cosmic objects...
Episode #6
<p>Presenter is the Project Scientist, Dr. Robert Pappalardo (JPL)<br/>May 22, 2024<br/><br/>Jupiter's moon Europa may be a habitable world, containing the “ingredients” necessary for life within its ocean. Data from...
Episode #5
<p>Apr. 17, 2024<br/>In this talk, physicist and popular author Paul Halpern (St. Joseph's College) examines the history of the concept of a <b>multiverse</b> in science, and discusses the ideas by Einstein and other...
Episode #1
<p>With Dr. Leonard Susskind (Stanford University)<br/>Black holes, the collapsed remnants of the largest stars, provide a remarkable laboratory where the frontier concepts of our understanding of nature are tested at...
Episode #4
<p>A Non-technical Talk by Dr. Jessica Lu (University of California, Berkeley) on March 13, 2024<br/><br/>The population of black holes, objects left over from dead stars, is almost entirely unexplored. Only about two...
Episode #3
<p>Speaker: Dr. Brian Lantz (Stanford University)<br/>Feb. 7, 2024<br/>Measuring gravitational waves is a revolutionary new way to do astronomy. They were predicted by Einstein, but it was not until 2015, that LIGO (the...
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Director of the Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory
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