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Astronomy Lectures

Benjamin Dean Astronomy Lectures

Mind-expanding talks and presentations by the brightest stars in the field of astronomy.

General Lectures

General Lectures

The Academy regularly brings brilliant speakers to the Academy to lecture on everything from anthropology to zoology.

Science Classes and Courses

Science Classes and Courses

Deepen your connection to the natural world with an Academy science class.

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NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission will explore the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 known moons. Astronomers believe it has a deep, underground ocean and more water even than Earth.

Benjamin Dean Astronomy Lectures

Alien Oceans: NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission

Mon. Sep. 9th at 7:30 pm - Planetarium

Hear about NASA's upcoming mission to Europa from Dr. Kevin Hand, director of the Ocean Worlds Lab at JPL.
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A large eruption in the low solar atmosphere caught in the act by NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), a solar telescope orbiting Earth since 2013. Earth is shown for scale. When these types of events propagate into interplanetary space they can impact space nearby Earth, causing space weather.

Benjamin Dean Astronomy Lectures

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Sun's Atmosphere

Mon. Oct. 7th at 7:30 pm - Planetarium

How does the Sun's magnetic field drive the heating of its 10,000-degree chromosphere and million-degree corona?
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Cosmic Cliffs is the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. The Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured it in infrared light, a light our eyes cannot perceive.

Benjamin Dean Astronomy Lectures

Seeing Beyond Sight: Astronomical Images and the Aesthetics of the Sublime

Mon. Nov. 4th at 7:30 pm - Planetarium

How do we represent what lies beyond our sight?