Hubble Public Talks

Upcoming Lectures

December 1, 2009
Speaker: Rachel Osten, STScI
Title: The Uses of Stellar Flares
January 5, 2010
Speaker: TBD, STScI
Title: TBA
February 2, 2010
Speaker: Ray Lucas, STScI
Title: Gravitational Lenses
March 2, 2010
Speaker: Daniel Apai, STScI
Title: TBA
April 6, 2010
Speaker: Rosa Diaz, STScI
Title: TBA

Recent Lectures

November 3, 2009
Speaker: Vanessa Thomas & Max Mutchler, STScI
Title: Seeing Stars at the White House
October 6, 2009
Speaker: Frank Summers, STScI
Title: Hubble: Back in Business and Better than Ever
September 1, 2009
Speaker: Christine Chen, STScI
Title: Debris Disks and the Evolution of Planetary Systems
Missed a lecture? Visit the Public Talks Archive
Frank Summers giving a lecture
Are you interested in planets, stars, galaxies, black holes?

Come to the free public lectures at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). Each month a noted scientist discusses a different cosmic topic. Lectures are at 8 p.m. the first Tuesday of every month in the STScI auditorium, on the campus of Johns Hopkins University. Free parking is available. For directions, call 410-338-4700.

While you're in Baltimore:

Come peer into the heavens with the Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg telescope. The telescope is open to the public every Friday evening, weather permitting. For more information, contact the observatory at (410)-516-6525 or visit the observatory's web site.

Also, The Baltimore Astronomical Society (BAS), Baltimore's amateur astronomy club, meets the second Tuesday of every month at the Maryland Science Center. For information regarding meeting times, club activities, and other astronomy clubs in the Maryland area, visit the BAS website.