Calendar of Events
| Date | Time & Place | Speaker | Title |
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| Dec 12, 2024 | Chem-Phys room TBA - 7 PM | Dr. Gary Ferland | The Star of Bethlehem |
| Nov 14, 2024 | Chem-Phys room 183 - 8 PM | Tim Knauer | Jupiter: King of Planets |
| Oct 10, 2024 | Chem-Phys Room 155 - 8 PM | Tim Knauer | 2024-10-10 Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS |
| Sep 12, 2024 | Chem-Phys Room 155 - 8 PM | Tim Knauer | What Powers the Stars? |
| Aug 8, 2024 | Chem-Phys Room 155 - 8 PM | Tim Knauer | The Biggest Bangs |
| Jul 11, 2024 | CP-179 - 8 PM | Tim Knauer | The Discovery of Dark Matter |
| Jun 13, 2024 | CP-155 8 PM | Tim Knauer | Powers of Ten |
| May 9, 2024 | CP-155 8 PM | Tim Knauer | Extreme Stars |
| Apr 11, 2024 | CP-179 8 PM | Dr. Ron Wilhelm | T Coronae Borealis: A New Naked-eye Star is about to Appear |
| Mar 14, 2024 | CP-155 7PM | Dr. Tom Troland | Total Eclipse of the Sun 2024 Where, When, and How |
| Feb 8, 2024 | CP-222 7PM | Dr. Gary Ferland | Our Universe and Life |
| Jan 11, 2024 | CP-222 7PM | Dr. Joe Straley | Do Stars Have Points? |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Chem-Phys Rm 287 7:00 PM | Julianne Goddard |
Beyond the Stars: Decoding Galaxies Through Observations |
| Nov 9, 2023 | Chem-Phys Rm 155 8:00 PM | Mohammadreza Zakeri Niasar | Neutron Stars: Exploring the Dense Wonders of the Cosmos |
| Oct 9, 2023 | Chem-Phys Rm 155 8:00 PM | Dr. Gary Ferland | From the Earth to the Moon, and the Birth of our Solar System |
| Sept 14, 2023 | Chem-Phys Rm 155 8:00 PM | Dr. Gary Ferland | Impacts on the Earth |
| May 11, 2023 | Chem-Phys Rm 287 8:00 PM | Tim Knauer | Planetary Nebulae, Aren't |
| Apr 13, 2023 |
CP-287 8:00 PM |
Erica Lenyel | Exploring Stellar Evolution through the Lens of Our Sun |
| Mar 9, 2023 |
Room 222 Chemistry-Physics Bldg 7:00 PM |
Dr. Ron Wilhelm |
The Hubble Tension: How fast is the Universe expanding? |
| Feb 9, 2023 |
Room 155 Chemistry-Physics Bldg 7:00 PM |
Shweta Jain | Growth of Starry Islands - The Galaxies |
| Jan 12, 2023 |
Room 155 Chemistry-Physics Bldg 7:00 PM |
Tim Knauer | The Doomed Comets of Kreutz |
| Dec 8, 2022 |
Room 155 Chemistry-Physics Bldg 7:00 PM |
Dr. Tom Troland |
The Milky Way and Andromeda A Tale of Two Galaxies |
| Nov 10, 2022 |
Room 155 Chemistry-Physics Bldg 7:00 PM |
Dr. Gary Ferland | Our Universe and Life |
| Oct 13, 2022 | See: https://observatory.as.uky.edu/skytalk | ||
| Sep 8, 2022 |
Room 155 Chemistry-Physics Bldg 8:00 PM |
Tim Knauer | Gravity: Falling Apples to the Event Horizon |
| Aug 11, 2022 |
Room 155 Chemistry-Physics Bldg 8:00 PM |
Tim Knauer | Kessler Syndrome and the Future of Satellites |
| July 14, 2022 |
Room 155 Chemistry-Physics Bldg 8:00 PM |
Tim Knauer | Messier and His Celestial Treasures |
| June 9, 2022 | Postponed | ||
| May 12, 2022 |
Room 155 Chemistry-Physics Bldg 8:00 PM |
Tim Knauer | Ancient Monuments, Ancient Observatories |
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Apr 14, 2022
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Room 155 Chemistry-Physics Bldg 8:00 PM |
Nikhil Ajgaonkar | Possible Signs of Alien Life in Our Solar System |
| Mar 10, 2022 | 7 PM Jacobs Science Building Room 221 | Dr. Ron Wilhelm | Science with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) |
| Feb 10, 2022 | 7PM Jacobs Science Building Room 114 | Dr. Tom Troland | Eye on Mars |
| Jan 13, 2022 | POSTPONED | ||
| Dec 9, 2021 | 7PM Chem-Phys Room 155 | Tim Knauer | The Star of Bethlehem |
| Nov 11, 2021 | 7PM Chem-Phys Room 155 | Da Bi | Dark Matter: the Hidden Giant in the Universe |
| Oct 14, 2021 |
7 PM - Jacobs Science Building Room 108 |
Dr. Tom Troland | Lunar Visions - Evolving Images of the Moon in Science and Art from Antiquity to the Present |
| Sept 9, 2021 | 8PM Chem-Phys Room 155 | Tim Knauer | Build Your Own Spectroscope |
| Feb 11, 2021 | https://uky.zoom.us/j/88207725660 | Dr. Ron Wilhelm | But Where is Everybody? |
| Apr 9, 2020 | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled |
| Mar 12, 2020 | Cancelled | Cancelled | Cancelled |
| Feb 13, 2020 |
7 PM Chem-Phys Building Room 155 |
Dr. Joseph Straley | Can Renewable Energy Replace Fossil Fuels? |
| Jan 9, 2020 | TBA | Tim Knauer | Eta Carinae: A Star With a Past... and No Future |
| Dec 12, 2019 |
7 PM Chem-Phys Building Room 155 |
Dr. Gary Ferland | The Star of Bethlehem |
| Nov 14, 2019 |
7 PM Chem-Phys Building Room 155 |
Austin Hinkel | The Leftovers of Solar System Formation |
| Oct 10, 2019 |
7 PM Chem-Phys Building Room 155 |
Dr. Isaac Shlosman | How to make black holes, very large black holes |
| Sept 12, 2019 | 8 PM Chemistry-Physics Building - Room 155 | Dr. Tom Troland | The Origins of the Elements |
| Aug 8, 2019 |
8 PM Jacobs Science Building - Room 121 |
Dr. Ron Wilhelm | Gathering Data at MacAdam Observator |
| July 11, 2019 |
8 PM Jacobs Science Building - Room 121 |
Tim Knauer | Apollo at 50 |
| June 13, 2019 |
8 PM Jacobs Science Building - Room 121 |
Amber Moore | Magnetic Fields and Where to Find Them |
| May 9, 2019 |
8 PM Jacobs Science Building - Room 121 |
Da Bi | Important Things to Know About Telescopes |
| Apr 11, 2019 | 8 PM Jacobs Science Building - Room 221 | Dr. Ron Wilhelm | Confirming Einstein: The 100th Anniversary of the Eddington Eclipse |
| Mar 14, 2019 |
7 PM The 90 Room 202 |
Tim Knauer | Powers of Ten in Time |
| Feb 14, 2019 |
7PM UKAA Auditorium W T Young Library |
Dr. Tom Troland | Pluto and Beyond - The Twilight Zone of the Solar System |
| Jan 10, 2019 |
7PM UKAA Auditorium W T Young Library |
Da Bi | Active Galactic Nucleus: The Most Luminous Object in the Sky |
| Dec 13, 2018 | 7 PM CP-155 | Dr. Gary Ferland | The Star of Bethlehem |
| Nov 8, 2018 | 7 PM CP-155 | Amber Moore | Supernovae: Discovery, Death, and Explosions |
| Oct 11,2018 | 7 PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | SS433: A Cosmic Sprinkler |
| Sep 13, 2018 | 8 PM CP-155 | Dr. Tom Troland | Everything About Ecllpses |
| Aug 9, 2018 | 8 PM CP-155 | Angela Collier | So you want to be an astronomer? |
| July 12, 2018 | 8 PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Wanted: A Planet With a View |
| June 14, 2018 | 8 PM CP-155 | Dr. Ron Wilhelm | How much darker can dark matter get? |
| May 10, 2018 | 8 PM CP-155 | Dr. Renbin Yan | The Daily Drama on the Sun and How It Impacts Our Life |
| Apr 12, 2018 | 7 PM CP-155 | Dr. Tom Troland | When Neutron Stars Collide |
| Mar 8, 2018 | 7 PM CP-155 | Amber Moore | A Journey to Orion |
| Feb 8, 2018 | 7 PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | 25 Greatest Astronomical Images |
| Jan 11, 2018 | 7 PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Clocks and Calendars |
| Dec 14,2017 | 7 PM CP-155 | Dr. Gary Ferland | The Star of Bethlehem |
| Nov 9, 2017 | 7 PM CP-155 | Dr. Tom Troland | Artwork from the Heaven |
| Oct 12, 2017 | 7 PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Sputnik to SpaceX |
| Sep 14, 2017 | 8 PM CP-155 | Angela Collier | The Littlest Stars |
| Aug 10, 2017 | 8 PM CP-155 | Dr. Tom Troland | The August 21 Total Solar Eclipse - Don't You Dare Miss It! |
| July 13, 2017 | 8 PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | The “WOW!” Signal, 40 Years On |
| June 8, 2017 | 8 PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Powers of Ten |
| Apr 13, 2017 | 8 PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Dark Clouds Don’t Always Mean Stormy Weather |
| Mar 9, 2017 | 7 PM CP-155 | Dr. Tom Troland | Life in the Solar System - Where Else Besides Earth? |
| Feb 9, 2017 | 7PM CP-155 | Angela Coller | Pandora’s Cluster: Abell 2744 |
| Jan 12,2017 | 7PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Keep Looking Up: The Heavenward Herschels |
| Dec 8, 2016 | 7PM CP-155 | Dr, Gary Ferland | The Star of Bethlehem |
| Nov 10, 2016 | 7PM CP-155 | Dr. Ron Wilhelm | What Causes Gullies on Mars? |
| Oct 13, 2016 | 7PM CP-155 | Dr. Tom Troland | A Tribute to Cassini at Saturn |
| Sept 8, 2016 | 8PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Rosetta at Comet 67/P: Thereby Hangs a Tail |
| Aug 11, 2016 | --------------- | No SkyTalk this date. | |
| July 14, 2016 | 8PM CP-155 | Gemunu Ekanayake | The Heart of the Milky Way |
| June 9, 2016 | 8PM CP-155 | Angela Collier | The Search for Planet X |
| May 12, 2016 | 8PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Fundamental Astronomy:Where is That Star in the Sky? (And will it stay there?) |
| April 14, 2016 | 8PM CP-155 | Dr. Pamela Marcum | Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy |
| Mar 10, 2016 | 7PM CP-155 | Dr. Ron Wilhelm | Surfing in the Dark: The First Detection of Gravitational Wave |
| Feb 11, 2016 | 7PM CP-155 | Dr. Tom Troland | Pluto and the Outer Solar System Revealed |
| Jan 14, 2016 | 7PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Fundamental Astronomy: How Bright is that Star? |
| Dec 10, 2015 | 7PM CP-155 | Dr. Gary Ferland | The Star of Bethlehem |
| Nov 12, 2015 | 7PM CP-155 | Dr. Tom Troland | Lunar Visions |
| Oct 8, 2015 | 8PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Clouds: Bane, Boon, and Boom |
| Sep 10, 2015 | 8PM CP-139 | Dr. Robert O'Dell | Traveling Through the Orion Nebula |
| Aug 13, 2015 | 8PM CP-155 | Angela Collier | Galactic Navigation and Mapping |
| July 9, 2015 | 8PM CP-155 | Stacy Long | Journey to Pluto |
| June 11, 2015 | 8PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Preview the Summer Spectacular |
| May 14,2015 | 8PM CP-155 | Dr. Kyle McCarthy | The Hubble Tuning Fork: Harmonizing The Galaxies |
| Apr 9, 2015 | 8PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | A Blast from the Past: Tambora at 200 Years (Exactly) |
| Mar 12, 2015 | 8PM CP-155 | Dr. Ron Wilhelm | The First Stars in the Universe |
| Feb 12, 2015 | 7PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Kristian Birkeland and the Northern Lights |
| Jan 8, 2015 | 7PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | A History of Gravity: An Attractive Theory for 300 Years |
| Dec 11, 2014 | 7PM CP-155 | Dr. Renbin Yan | The Enterprise of Mapping the Structure of the Universe |
| Nov 13, 2014 | 7PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Rosetta: Landing on a Comet |
| Oct 9, 2014 | 8PM CP-155 | Dr. Isaac Shlosman | The Current Status of Space Travel: Science versus Fiction |
| Sept 11, 2014 | 8PM CP-155 | Dr. Thomas Troland | When Galaxies Collide |
| Aug 14, 2014 | 8PM CP-155 | Kyle McCarthy | The Inception of the Solar System |
| July 10, 2014 | 8PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | To the Universe: Just How Old Are You, Anyway? |
| June 12, 2014 | 8PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Saturn: From Cassini to Cassini |
| Night of May 23-24 | 2-4 AM EDT ? | Possible New Meteor Shower - NASA Video Link to the right | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw3hVTUQ43U |
| May 8, 2014 | 8:00 PM CP-220 | Dr. Ron Wilhelm | Stars that pulsate and what they teach us about the universe. |
| April 10, 2014 | 8:00 PM CP-139 | Tim Knauer | The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man Made Missions |
| March 13, 2014 | 8:00 PM CP-139 | Dr. Thomas Troland | A Trip to Mars |
| February 13, 2014 | 7:00 PM CP-139 | Dr. Joseph Straley | The Science of Climate Change |
| January 9, 2014 | 7:00 PM CP-155 | Rick Schrantz | Amateur Planetary Imaging Over the Years |
| December 12, 2013 | 7:00 PM CP-155 | Dr. Gary Ferland | The Star of Bethlehem |
| November 14, 2013 | 7:00 PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Comet ISON and the Sungrazers |
| October 10, 2013 | 7:00 PM CP-155 | Dr. Ron Wilhelm | How old are Surface Features on the Planets and Moons? |
| September 12, 2013 | 8:00 PM CP-155 | Dr. Thomas Troland | The sky at many wavelengths |
| August 8, 2013 | 8:00 PM CP-155 | Aaron Morris | Dwarf Planets: Stellar Pets |
| July 11, 2013 | 8:00 PM CP-155 | Gururaj Wagle | The Midlife Crisis |
| June 13, 2013 | 8:00 PM CP-155 | Kyle McCarthy | Stellar Daycare |
| May 9, 2013 | 8:00 PM CP-155 | Dr. Dale Kocevski | Black Holes through Cosmic Time |
| April 11, 2013 | 8:00 PM CP-155 | Dr. Tom Troland | Where we live in the universe |
| March 14, 2013 | 8:00 PM CP-155 | Dr. Renbin Yan | The Universe in Rainbow Colors and Beyond |
| February 14, 2013 | 7:00 PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Inquisitive About Quasars |
| January 10, 2013 | 7:00 PM CP-155 | Dr. Ron Wilhelm | What Ancient Stars Tell Us about the Universe |
| December 13, 2012 | 7:15PM CP-155 | Dr. Gary Ferland | The Star of Bethlehem |
| November 8, 2012 | 7PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | The Real Big Bang Theory |
| October 11, 2012 | 7PM CP-155 | Dr. Tom Troland |
Why We Don't Need Humans in Space: A Robotic Tour of the Solar System |
| September 13, 2012 | 8PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Inquisitive About Quasars |
| August 9, 2012 | 8PM CP-155 | Gururaj Wagle | Eclipses: Superstition to Fascination |
| July 12, 2012 | 8PM CP-155 | Furea Kiuchi | Exploring the Solar System with Robots |
| June 14, 2012 | 8PM CP-155 | Aaron Morris | Denizens of the Galactic Zoo |
| June 5, 2012 | 6PM-8:40PM | SPECIAL EVENT | Weather permitting, join us at The Arboretum to safely view the last Transit of Venus in you and your children's lifetimes. |
| May 31, 2012 | 7:30 PM CP-155 | Tim Knauer | Standing in the Shadow of Venus |
| May 10, 2012 | 8PM CP-155 | Kyle McCarthy | Finding Alien Planets Around Nearby Stars! |
| Apr 12, 2012 | 8PM CP-155 | Dr. Robert O'Dell | Building the Hubble Space Telescope |
| Mar 8, 2012 | 7PM CP-155 | Dr. Gary Ferland | The Mars they saw, and the Mars that really is. |
| Feb 9, 2012 | 7PM CP-155 | Dr. Thomas Troland | The Andromeda Galaxy - The most distant object you can see with your naked eye, but it's getting closer all the time! |
| Jan 12, 2012 | 7PM CP-155 | Dr. Ron Wilhelm | How Einstein's Relativity Changed Our Cosmic Perspective |
| Dec 8, 2011 | 7PM CP-155 | Dr. Susan Gardner | Illuminating the Dark Sector of the Universe |
| Nov 10, 2011 | 7PM CP155 | Dr. Brad Plaster | Why is there more matter than anti-matter in the Universe? |
| Oct 13, 2011 | 8PM - CP155 | Dr. Moshe Elitzur | How do we know the age of the Universe? |
| Sep 8, 2011 | 8PM - CP155 | Tim Knauer | Astronomy from the Big City |
| Aug 11, 2011 | 8PM - CP155 | Furea Kiuchi | Black Holes: No Escape Even at the Speed of Light |
| July 14, 2011 | 8PM - CP155 | Tim Knauer | Killer Asteroids and Comets: Ignorance is Bliss |
| June 9, 2011 | 8PM - CP155 | Aaron Morris | Pulsars: The Galaxy's Lighthouses |
| May 12, 2011 | 8PM - CP155 | Kristen Thompson | Our Solar System's Shining Star - The Sun |
| Apr 14, 2011 | 8PM - CP155 | Dr. Richard Gray | Exploring the Personalities of Stars through their Spectra |
| Mar 10, 2011 | 7PM | Dr. Gary Ferland | The Man in the Moon |
| Feb 10, 2011 | 7PM | Dr. Tom Troland | A Voyage to Orion |
| Jan 13, 2011 | 7PM | Dr. Joe Straley | Is the Earth Getting Warmer? |
| Dec 9, 2010 | 7PM CP155 | Dr. Jennifer Birriel | Life in the Universe |
| Nov 10, 2010 | 7PM | Dr. Thomas Pannuti | Supernovae: Things That Go *BOOM!* in the Night |
| Oct 14, 2010 | 7PM | Dr. Marco Ciocca | Telescopes, Planets and Stars, oh my...What can be seen and what is needed. |
| Sep 9, 2010 | 8PM | Tim Knauer | Our Universe in 3-d |
| Aug 12, 2010 | 8PM | Tim Knauer | The Perseid Meteor Shower: See and Hear Pieces of Comet Swift-Tuttle |
| Jul 8, 2010 | 8PM | Dr. Ron Wilhelm | Size in the Universe: What Are You Really Seeing? |
| Jun 10, 2010 | 8PM | Tim Knauer | Exploding Stars: the biggest bangs since the first one. |
| May 13, 2010 | 8PM | Dr. Brad Canon | Where are they? Hypotheses about why intelligent life in the Galaxy hasn't contacted us. |
| Apr 8, 2010 | 8PM | Jake Gamsky | Students for the Exploration and Development of Space |
| Mar 11, 2010 | 7PM | Dr. Raymond LeBeau | A Galaxy of Giant Planets |
| Feb 11, 2010 | 7PM | Brandon Hargis | The Hubble Space Telescope: Scientific Breakthroughs and Breathtaking Images |
| Jan 14, 2010 | 7PM | Dr. John Yopp | Astrobiology: What Earth's Extreme Life Forms Tell Us about the Possibilities of Life on Other Planets |
| Dec 10, 2009 | 7PM | Anna Quider | The Dusty Universe |
| Nov 12, 2009 | 7PM | Bill Brockman | Elements of Digital Astrophotography |
| July 12, 2018 | 8 PM CP-155 |
| 8 PM CP-155 |
| Jan 10, 2019 |
7PM UKAA Auditorium W T Young Library |
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8 PM Jacobs Science Building - Room 121 |
| 7PM Chem-Phys Room 155 |
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Room 155 Chemistry-Physics Bldg 8:00 PM |
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Room 155 Chemistry-Physics Bldg 8:00 PM |
