[AANC Contacts] Free Public Talk on Black Holes at Foothill College May 19th

[Andrew Fraknoi]

Nontechnical Talk Open to the Public
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On Wednesday, May 19th, 2010, at 7 pm,
Astronomer Alex Filippenko from the University
of California, Berkeley, will give a non-technical,
illustrated talk on:
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Hearts of Darkness: Black Holes in Space
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as part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures
in the Smithwick Theater, Foothill College,
El Monte Road and Freeway 280,
in Los Altos Hills, California.

Free and open to the public.
Parking on campus costs $2.

Call the series hot-line at 650-949-7888 for
more information and driving directions.

No background in science will be required for
this talk.
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Black holes are regions of space where gravity
is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape!
No longer confined to the imaginations of science-fiction
writers and theoretical physicists, black holes have
recently been discovered in large numbers by observational
astronomers. Smaller black holes can form during the deaths
of some types of massive stars, and super-massive
black holes are found at the centers of many galaxies, including
our own.  Come learn about the remarkable properties of these
bizarre objects from one of the finest explainers in the field
of astronomy.

Alex Filippenko is a world-renowned expert on exploding stars, black holes,
gamma-ray bursts, galaxies, and cosmology. Voted the "best professor" on
the UC Berkeley campus seven times and winner of the 2010 Emmons Award for
undergraduate teaching, he was also named the Carnegie/CASE National
Professor of the Year in 2006 among doctoral institutions. For his pioneering
research , he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
He recently produced a 12-lecture DVD video course on black holes with
The Teaching Company.

The lecture is co-sponsored by:
* NASA Ames Research Center
* The Foothill College Astronomy Program
* The SETI Institute
* The Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

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Past Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures are now available
in MP3 format at:
<http://www.astrosociety.org/education/podcast/index.html>http://www.astrosociety.org/education/podcast/index.html


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Andrew Fraknoi, Chair, Astronomy Program
Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Rd.,
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022, USA

Telephone: (650) 949-7288
E-mail: fraknoiandrew at fhda.edu
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