Video Playlists

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Show Speaker Talk Title Date
73 Dr. Kirk "Like the Captain" Scanlan Radar Sounding: Looking Inside Planets and Moons from Space 10/20/20
73 Dr. Chris "The Rock" Lowery The Recovery of Life After the End Cretaceous Mass Extinction 10/20/20
72 Dr. Space Rocks (Dr. Augusto Carballido) La fascinante busqueda de vida en el cosmos 9/22/20
72 Black Hole Momma (Dr. Eva Noyola) ¿Cómo "vemos" a los agujeros negors? 9/22/20
72 Samwell Starly (Dr. René Minakata) Top 5 superpoderes de las y los astrónomos 9/22/20
71 MC SuperDuperNova (Jeffrey Silverman) Death from the Skies, or How the Universe is Trying to Kill Us 8/25/20
71 Darth Astrophysicist (Micalyn Rowe) Archaeoastronomy 8/25/20
71 Ghana Gal (Jacqueline Antwi-Danso) A Behind-The-Scenes Look at Deep Near-Infrared Photometric Surveys 8/25/20
70 Starkid (Dakota Tyler) Intermediate-size exoplanets with JWST 7/21/20
70 Chima the Exoplanet Explorer (Chima McGruder) Finding and Characterizing Habitable Planets 7/21/20
70 Halo Handler (KeShawn Ivory) Improving Methods of Galactic Archaeology 7/21/20
69 Kosmic Kid (Yaswant Devarakonda) What's up in the sky 6/30/20
69 That Astro Chic (Ashley Walker) Black Astronomy 6/30/20
69 Astro Jaz (Jasmine Singh) Planetary Atmospheres 6/30/20
68 Space DUST IN Harmony (Dustin Katzberg) Outbursting White Dwarfs and Homogeneity of Binary Stars 5/19/20
68 ExZoPlanet Hunter (Zoe De Beurs) Using Machine Learning in Astrophysics (Classifying X-Ray Binaries) 5/19/20
68 Isaac Laseter Magnifying Early Milky Ways 5/19/20
67 Notorius L.A.E. (Steve Finkelstein) Galaxies with Hubble 4/21/20
67 Alien Meteorologist (Laura Kreidberg) Exoplanet Atmospheres Through the Eyes of Hubble 4/21/20
67 Secretary Fritz (Fritz Benedict) History of Hubble 4/21/20
66 Carbon Queen (Taylor Hutchison) Uncovering the Mysteries of the Universe with the James Webb Space Telescope 3/24/20
66 Destroyer of Worlds (Joel Green) Astronomy in 3D 3/24/20
66 Space Rock Star (Jason Achilles) Designing a Camera Array to Record Lunar Landings 3/24/20
65 Queen of Stellar Pops (Maddie Lucey) Why Stars are so Underrated 2/18/20
65 Whatamerger Jr. (Jackie Champagne) Radio Astronomy 2/18/20
65 All About Nothing (Karl Gebhardt) The Expansion of the Universe and latest results from HETDEX 2/18/20
64 Finding Drory (Niv Drory) Astronomical Instrumentation: What Astronomers Use Besides Their Eyes 1/21/20
64 Lunar Terminator (Rob Pettengill) Amateur Astronomer Ambassador Program to Chile 1/21/20
64 Will “There’s-a-Way” Coogan. (Will Coogan) Genesis Lunar Lander Program at Firefly Aerospace 1/21/20
63 Exohunter (Andrew Vanderburg) Nearby Exoplanet Neighbors with TESS 12/17/19
63 Notorius L.A.E. (Steve Finkelstein) Future Telescopes 12/17/19
63 The Sol Tripper (Tim Goudge (Jackson School)) Jezero crater on Mars and how rover landing sites get selected 12/17/19
62 AoTATX Space Cadets AoT feedback form questions 11/19/19
62 Eclipsing Orbiter (Caroline Morley) Exotic Atmospheres of Faraway Worlds 11/19/19
62 Dr. Planetkiller (David Wilson) Habitable planets in Star Wars and how to destroy them 11/19/19
61 Captain Magnet (Stephanie Douglas) Stellar and Planetary Magnetic fields - Implications for life 10/22/19
61 Space Invader (Evan Schneider) Supercomputers and Galaxies - Astronomy and Video Games 10/22/19
61 Stellar Planet (Hannah Wakeford) The Wildest Weather Through Time and Space 10/22/19
60 Guardian of the Other Galaxies (Andrew Graus) Dark Matter Detection Experiments 9/17/19
60 It's a TRAPPIST (Danny Krolikowski) Titan and the Dragonfly Mission 9/17/19
60 Dr. Hubblebytes (Niall Gaffney) Using Supercomputers and Big Data in Astronomy 9/17/19
59 Dob the Builder (Greg Rohde) Amateur Telescope Making, Innovations in Design 8/20/19
59 Stellar Sky Lord (Terry Phillips) The Amateur Astronomer's Toolbox 8/20/19
59 Earthbound Astronomer (Dawn Davies) The History of AAS in Austin 8/20/19
58 The Starburst Quencher (Justin Spilker) Black Hole Image 7/16/19
58 MCMC Hammer (Sam Factor) Interferometry 7/16/19
58 AstroALee (Aaron Lee) Stars! (binaries) 7/16/19
57 Professor X-Ray (Dave Pooley) The Entire X-ray Universe 6/18/19
57 Jeremy Drake 20 Years of the Chandra X-ray Observatory 6/18/19
57 Dr. Planetkiller (David Wilson) Chandra Observations of Undead Stars 6/18/19
56 The Schechter Function* (no relation) (Aimee Schechter) & Anne-ificial Intelligence (Anne Dattilo) Weird Astronomer Units 5/21/19
56 Cosmic Infla-shen (Zili Shen) Solar Physics 5/21/19
56 Eccentric Orbiter (Logan Pearce) SETI now and in the future 5/21/19
55 Bond, Carbon-Bond (Brandt Gaches) something about cosmic rays 04/16/19
55 The re-ionizer (Ciaran Fairhurst) Hubble through the ages 04/16/19
55 Jonathan Florez Exploring the Role of Active Black Holes in Galaxy Evolution 04/16/19
54 Dr. Dark Star (Will Best) The Sun's secret neighbors 03/19/19
54 Andromedreia (Dreia Carrillo) How stars tell us about the galaxies they live in 03/19/19
54 Space Rock Star (Jason Achilles) Designing the First Microphone on Mars 03/19/19
53 Major Merger (Sinclaire Manning) Hidden FIgures 02/19/19
53 Italo (Neal Evans) Star Formation 02/19/19
53 Evgenya Shkolnik Proxima Cen b 02/19/19
52 Deep Space Shine (Micaela Bagley) Reionization 01/15/19
52 Star Party Queen (Lara Eakins) What to look for in the night sky this year 01/15/19
52 LL Cool Stars (Ben Tofflemire) Protoplanetary disks 01/15/19
51 Director of Dark Matters (Mike Boylan-Kolchin) Dark Matter 12/18/18
51 Dr. Dust Buster (Caitlin Casey) Dust! 12/18/18
51 Indiana Jones of the Galaxy (Keith Hawkins) Galactic Archaeology 12/18/18
50 Space Cadets (AoTATX Space Cadets) AoT feedback form questions 11/20/18
50 Chaos Cloud (Rebecca Larson) The Universe in Infrared 11/20/18
50 David Guszejnov From Gas to Stars 11/20/18
49 Twinkle Killer (Andy Skermer) AO - Directly Imaging Exoplanets 10/16/18
49 Gentlewoman Astronomer (Cyndi Froning) Flexing your MUSCLES 10/16/18
49 Captain A.O. (Adam Kraus) Planets in binary star systems 10/16/18
48 Whatamerger Jr. (Jackie Champagne) Radio Astronomy & Galaxy Clusters 9/18/18
48 Spectro Billionaire (Gary Hill) Instrumentation / Telescopes & Technology 9/18/18
48 Stranger on Solaris (Hope Chen) Shape of (Molecular) Clouds: 9/18/18
47 Agent of S.H.E.L.A. (Sydney Sherman) The most massive galaxies 8/21/18
47 Astrobit (Brian W. Mulligan) Supernova, the Universe, and You 8/21/18
47 Dr. Comet (Adam McKay) Comets and the Rosetta Mission 8/21/18
46 Ilya Beskin Navigation at Sea 7/17/18
46 Lyman z Coconut (Dustin Davis) Lyman Alpha blobs 7/17/18
46 Gordon Wesley Engineering-Turning Dreams into Reality, and Keeping Them that Way 7/17/18
45 The Starburst Quencher (Justin Spilker) Dusty Galaxies 6/19/18
45 Active Galactic Nucle-Guy (Matt Stevans) AGN 6/19/18
45 Space Ventura, Galaxy Detective (Casey Papovich) Watching Galaxies Form with Hubble (and Other Telescopes) 6/19/18
44 Mr. Cold (Patrick Drew) Dust in Galaxies 5/15/18
44 A$AP Rocky Planet (Raquel Martinez) Extreme Exoplanet systems 5/15/18
44 Fabiola Campos Outliers: How evolved binaries show themselves in globular clusters 5/15/18
43 AstroBoz (Brandon Bozek) Probing the Nature of Dark Matter with Numerical Simulations of the Local Universe 4/17/18
43 Professor Stardust (Chris Sneden) Creation of the elements 4/17/18
43 Moondancer (Judit Ries) The case of the mysterious interstellar cigar and other flying objects 4/17/18
42 Notorious L.A.E. (Steve Finkelstein) Where in the World is James Webb Space Telescope 3/20/18
42 Can Kilic Dark Matter as a Particle: WIMPs, MACHOs and everything in between 3/20/18
42 Bond, Carbon-Bond (Brandt Gaches) Astrochemistry 3/20/18
41 Destroyer of Worlds (Joel Green) Galactic Calendar 2/20/18
41 Space Aviator (Benny Tsang) Stellar clusters 2/20/18
41 Star Trooper (Stella Offner) Multiple Star Systems & Machine Learning 2/20/18
40 Professor Quantum (Craig Wheeler) Kilanova 1/23/18
40 All About Nothing (Karl Gebhardt) HETDEX/Dark Energy 1/23/18
40 Top Modeler (Barbara Castenheira) Whit Dwarf Seismology 1/23/18
39 MCMC Hammer (Sam Factor) History behind science of SETI 12/19/17
39 Astroshine (Hanshin Lee) Instrumentation/HETDEX 12/19/17
39 DJ Star Killer (Aaron Smith) First Black Holes 12/19/17
38 Notorious L.A.E. (Steve Finkelstein) Reionization 11/21/17
38 MC SPAXEL and R to de 2 (Majo and Robbie) Inflation 11/21/17
38 Cosmic Fireworks (Shardha Jogee) Galaxy Mergers / STEM Education 11/21/17
37 The Scarlett Satellite (Coral Wheeler) Dark Matter / Galaxy Simulations 10/24/17
37 Admiral Galactic Nuclei (Greg Mosby) Infrared Instrumentation 10/24/17
37 Stellar Slugger (Johanna Teske) Exoplanets? 10/24/17
36 Dr. Spacetime (Volker Bromm) First Stars and Galaxies 9/19/17
36 GeoRocks (Aaron Lee) formation of planetesimals 9/19/17
36 MC DuneSpice (Greg Mace) The Night Sky Festival: How Stars Waltz, Mosh, and Line Dance 9/19/17
35 Feedback Fighter (Briana Indahl) Young Galaxies at all Times (Lowz analogs for Highz galaxies) 8/15/17
35 Photonic Fixer (John Good) moving the wide field corrector for maintenance at McDonald 8/15/17
35 MC High-z (Rachael Livermore) Gravitational Lensing in HFF 8/15/17
34 Silver SFR (Keely Finkelstein) Solar Eclipse! 7/18/17
34 ExoMann (Andrew Mann) Young Planets 7/18/17
34 Ultracool Tool (Trent Dupuy) Brown Dwarfs? 7/18/17
33 Starry Nights (Kim Sokal) IGRINS & Disks 6/20/17
33 Major Merger (Sinclaire Manning) Long-wavelength Astronomy 6/20/17
33 Agent of S.H.E.L.A. (Sydney Sherman) Distance Ladder 6/20/17
32 Lord of the Planetary Rings (Bonnie Meinke) Moons in the Solar System 06/05/17
32 Rogue World Hunter (Jackie Faherty) Backworlds Citizen Science - Brown Dwarfs 06/05/17
32 Captain Planet 9 (Konstantin Batygin) Planet 9 06/05/17
31 Professor Ridiculous (Mark Dickinson & Harry Furgeson) History of the Hubble Deep Field 5/16/17
31 Merger Maniac (Chao-Ling) Galaxy Mergers 5/16/17
31 Martian Ice Queen (Cassie Stuurman) Ice in the Martian Utopia region 5/16/17
30 Dr. Boom (Chris Lindner) Supernovae 4/18/17
30 Solar Max (Max Parks) Space Policy 4/18/17
30 Comet Chameleon (Anita Cochran) "Comets: Tracers of Our Past" 4/18/17
29 Director of Dark Matters (Mike Boylan-Kolchin) Stellar Fossils & Galaxy History 3/21/17
29 It's a TRAPPIST (Danny Krolikowski) Enceladus, Titan, & Astrobiology 3/21/17
29 Andromedreia (Dreia Carrillo) Local Dwarf galaxies 3/21/17
28 Cosmic Brewery (Greg Zeimann) Faint Fuzzy Galaxies 2/21/17
28 Dr. Standoff Van de Watt (Daniel G. Benes) Science Shows and Demonstrations 2/21/17
28 Stardust Necromancer (Mike Montgomery) White Dwarfs 2/21/17
27 My Favorite Martian (Dan Jaffe) Finding Life on Exoplanets 1/17/17
27 Sailor Moontornvat (Christina Soontornvat) STEM Education & Writing 1/17/17
27 Proxima Endl (Mike Endl) Exoplanets 1/17/17
26 Champagne Supernova (Sarafina Nance) Supernovae 12/20/16
26 Astro Boz (Brandon Bozek) Multi-verse 12/20/16
26 All About Nothing (Karl Gebhardt) Black Holes 12/20/16
25 Whatamerger Jr. (Jackie Champagne) Radio Astronomy 11/15/16
25 Galactic Goddess (Kristy McQuinn) Dwarf Galaxies 11/15/16
25 Planet Hunter (Brendan Bowler) Exoplanets 11/15/16
24 Feedback Fighter (Briana Indahl) VIRUS, HET, HETDEX 10/18/16
24 Star Maker (Yao-Lun Yang) Drake Equation 10/18/16
24 Dr. Black Hole Momma (Eva Noyola) Black Holes 10/18/16
23 Astrobit (Brian W. Mulligan) search for dark matter 9/20/16
23 Aerosop Rock (Leon Vastone) Space travel 9/20/16
23 MC High-z (Rachael Livermore) 50 years of science in Star Trek 9/20/16
22 Dr. Dust Buster (Caitlin Casey) Dusty galaxies 8/16/16
22 CJ Classic DJ (Chris Johnson) influence of astronomy on classical music 8/16/16
22 MC SuperDuperNova (Jeff Silverman) Supernovae 8/16/16
21 Gentlewoman Astronomer (Cynthia Froning) Installing new instruments on Hubble 7/19/16
21 Master Lunartic (Spencer Martin) History of Moon Landings 7/19/16
21 Dr. Comet (Adam McKay) History of the Solar System, Planet Nince 7/19/16
20 MC Warp Factor (Randi Ludwig) Space travel 6/21/16
20 MC Quintessence (Rebecca Tippens) Dark Energy 6/21/16
20 MC Snowline (Emma Yu) Making planets 6/21/16
19 Professor X-Ray (Dave Pooley) Shakespeare & Astronomy 5/17/16
19 Angel of Darkness (Bill Wren) Dark Skies preservation 5/17/16
19 A$AP Rocky Planet (Raquel Martinez) Exoplanet detections 5/17/16
18 Notorious L.A.E. (Steve Finkelstein) Future of space telescopes 4/19/16
18 Blake "Astrorock"n" Rolland and Eric Quasar (Blake Rolland & Eric Cuellar) Terraforming planets & human colonization 4/19/16
18 Chaos Cloud (Rebecca Larson) star formation / IR 4/19/16
17 Destroyer of Worlds (Joel Green) Life in the universe 3/22/16
17 Nullifier of Noise (Dennis Ugolini) LIGO 3/22/16
17 MC Stardust (Summer Ash) Stars Wars planets & real-life exoplanets 3/22/16
17 Science Debator (Jayde Lovell) effective arguments against anti-science lobby 3/22/16
16 Moondancer (Judit Ries) Asteroids 2/16/16
16 Star Lord (Jacob Hummel) Computer simulations, Modeling Cosmology / Universe Sims 2/16/16
16 Ultracool Tool (Trent Dupuy) Exoplanets / Rogue planets 2/16/16
15 The Ex-stronomer (John Jardel) Dark Matter 1/19/16
15 Director of Dark Matters (Mike Boylan-Kolchin) Dark Matter 1/19/16
15 DJ Amphibious (Hayley Gillespie) Astronomy in Art 1/19/16
14 Copernicus (Andy Howell) Science vs. Cinenam in the Martian 12/15/15
14 Galaxy Next Door (Hwi Kim) Star Clusters 12/15/15
14 Grad School Degenerate (Keaton Bell) Stars, White dwarfs, 82-inch 12/15/15
13 CosmiCat (Renee James) Pure Science Research 11/17/15
13 Prof. Pawan (Pawan Kumar) General Relativity 11/17/15
13 MC High-z (Rachael Livermore) Gravitational Lensing 11/17/15
12 OG AoT (Meg Sschwamb) Pluto / New Horizons 10/16/15
12 Windy City Astro (Laura Trouille) Zooniverse, Citizen Science 10/16/15
12 Dr. Destructo (Brad Tucker) Supernovae & Mt. Stromlo Observatory 10/16/15
11 MC Squared (Dawn Davies) Astronomy in your backyard / Amateur astronomy 9/15/15
11 Captain AO (Adam Kraus) Exoplanets 9/15/15
11 Director Taft (Taft Armandroff) McD Observatory 9/15/15
10 Dr. Dinosaur Feathers (Julia Clarke) Asteroids / Dinosaurs 8/18/15
10 Fun With Chem (Kate Biberdorf) Fun w/ Chem 8/18/15
10 Queen of the Lab (Sarah Tuttle) Dark Energy / Instrumentation 8/18/15
9 Silver SFR (Keely Finkelstein) SOFIA 7/28/15
9 Notorious L.A.E. (Steve Finkelstein) Galaxies / High-z 7/28/15
9 Baroness von Binary (Amanda Bayless) Black Holes 7/28/15
8 South Pole Tommy (Tom Crawford) Astronomy at the South Pole 6/30/15
8 Extragalactic Educator (Irina Marinova) Galaxies 6/30/15
8 Captain Exoplanet (Marshall Johnson) Spacewalks 6/30/15
7 Professor Quantum (Craig Wheeler) Hyperspace & Phyiscs of Interstellar 5/26/15
7 Dr. Boom (Chris Lindner) Space Explosions 5/26/15
7 Dr. Double Trouble (Natalie Gosnell) Colliding Stars 5/26/15
6 Dr. Comet (Adam McKay) Comets 4/21/15
6 Astropixie (Amanda Bauer) Galaxies 4/21/15
5 Astraughnomer (Amber Straughn) HST & JWST 3/17/15
5 AstroVizGuy (Robert Hurt) Astro Visualizations 3/17/15
5 Captain Spacebook (John Yembrick) Social Media w/ NASA 3/17/15
4 -- Astronomy at the Movies 2/20/15
3 Astrobit (Brian W. Mulligan) 10,000 years of calendars 1/20/15
3 Dr. Black Hole Momma (Eva Noyola) Black Holes 1/20/15
3 MC SuperDuperNova (Jeff Silverman) New astro discoveries 1/20/15
2 Destroyer of Worlds (Joel Green) Alien Worlds 12/16/14
2 Secretary Fritz (Fritz Benedict) "The Sky is Falling" 12/16/14
2 Extragalactic Em (Emily McLinden) Galaxies / HETDEX 12/16/14
1 Dr. Comet (Adam McKay) Comets  
1 MC High-z (Rachael Livermore) Distant Universe  
1 MC SuperDuperNova (Jeff Silverman) How the Universe is Trying to Kill us  
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