For over 100 years, Steward Observatory has been offering public lectures on topics related to astronomy, offering explanations and insight into complicated concepts in a way that anyone, regardless ...

Stella Offner, associate professor of astronomy, will deliver her talk “Advancing New Frontiers in Astronomy Data Analysis, Modeling, and Discovery with Artificial Intelligence.” The Department of ...

Galaxy dynamics are confronted with one of the deepest problems of modern physics: the dark matter problem. The motions of stars and gas observed exceed what can be explained by the mass visible in ...

The last lecture in the 2018-19 Frontiers of Astronomy Lecture Series will feature Stephen Zepf from Michigan State University presenting “Black Holes and Globular Clusters.” Zepf's talk will be ...

Dr. Arno Penzias, recipient of the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics, will give a non-technical illustrated talk on “A Personal View of the Big Bang,” on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. PST. The free public ...

The lecture series features Francis Nimmo, Adriane Steinacker, and Graeme Smith discussing different aspects of the transit of Venus. Photo courtesy of Greg Laughlin. This photo taken at Lick ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Frank Petrie will present “Introduction to Astronomy and Telescopes” at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Petrie’s lecture, sponsored by the Port Townsend Public Library, will stream on Zoom. Petrie ...

One of the key objectives of modern astrophysics is to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. The Milky Way is an optimal laboratory for testing our theories of galaxy formation. However, ...

Prof. Searle of the Observatory will give a course of four lectures on the elements of Astronomy this month under the auspices of the Natural History Society. The lectures are to be on Wednesday ...