Thank you for joining me at the Monterey Peninsula College campus, a place I've visited before in my youth, and I'm honored to be invited by the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy. MIRA was the first folks to give me the chance to operate a telescope by myself, and all these years later, I blame them for the trajectory my life has taken - Astronomy has become and remained a lifelong passion of mine and I am doing everything I can to share that trajectory with others

After 10 years in the planetarium field, and a difficult 4 years away from it - I have decided that instead of being a fun side project...

In astronomy, there's a commonly used phrase: “we stand on the shoulders of giants,” part of a longer quote sometimes attributed to Isaac...

The technology I would like to describe is one that originates in the ancient past, likely as old as astronomy itself. While a few...

With the parade of anniversaries marking 50 years since the heights of the Apollo missions, humanity’s eyes are being drawn back to the...

The story of our Solar System is a tale of deep time and the distant past - in that what we know of the formation and early periods of...

Black holes have long endured a reputation as an “unknowable mystery” that has been highly distorted and warped in the funhouse mirror of...

The scientific approach to communicating with extraterrestrials is older than one might think. Over the past few centuries, some of the...