Videos from NCA Meetings
NCA Media Release Form
Nov 09, 2024: Brian J Williams (GSFC), XRISM: A New Window into the X-ray Universe
Oct 12, 2024: Benedikt Diemer (UMD), Where to Look for Dark Matter
Sep 14, 2024: Raman Sundrum (UMD), New Dimensions and Fundamental Physics: How, Why and Where
Jun 08, 2024: Cal Powell, Meteorites and Astronomy Outreach
May 11, 2024: Theresa Kucera (GSFC), The Sun from Different Points of View
Apr 13, 2024: Sue Bassett, What Killed the Wooly Mammoth? An Astronomical Suspect
Mar 09, 2024: Bill McDonough (UMD, Tohoku University), Multi-messenger Tomography of the Earth
Feb 10, 2024: David Bennett (UMD, GSFC), Gravitational Microlensing and the Roman Space Telescope Find the Coolest Planets
Jan 13, 2024: Shubham Kanodia (Carnegie Earth & Planets Lab), Big Planets around Small Stars: The forbidden extreme of planet formation
This meeting will be VIRTUAL only!
Dec 09, 2023: Deborah Shapley, Who Really Won the Great Debate: How Shapley's Loss Advanced Our Knowledge of Galaxies
Nov 11, 2023: Anne Pommier (Carnegie), Experimental Investigation of Planetary Interiors using Electrical Measurements
per req from speaker, no recording
Oct 14, 2023: Ben Hord (GSFC), Where Did They Come From, Where Will They Go: The Life and Death of Hot Jupiters
Sep 09, 2023: Dana Anderson (Carnegie), Investigating the Chemical Ingredients that Make Planets
Aug 26, 2023: Annual Board Meeting
Jun 10, 2023: Science Fair Winners, Election, Astro-Photo Show & Tell
May 13, 2023: Dana Louie (GSFC), Exploring Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope
Apr 08, 2023: Joe Pesce (GMU and NSF), The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Game-changing Science
Mar 11, 2023: Alex Dittmann (UMD), Stars in Accretion Disks that Orbit Black Holes
Feb 11, 2023: Thaddeus Komacek (UMD), Characterizing the atmospheric circulation and climate of exoplanets in the era of JWST
Jan 14, 2023: Kenneth G. Carpenter (GSFC), Imaging the Surfaces of Distant Stars
Dec 10, 2022: Igor Andreoni (UMD), How to Catch Transient Astronomical Events
Nov 12, 2022: Jens Barosch (Carnegie EPL), Presolar Stardust in Asteroid Ryugu
Oct 08, 2022: Rita M. Sambrunna (GSFC), Multi-messenger and Time Domain Astrophysics at NASA
Sep 10, 2022: Quanzhi Ye (UMD), Interstellar Visitors
Jun 11, 2022: Science Fair Winners, Election, Astro-Photo Show & Tell
May 14, 2022: Harold Williams (Montgomery College), The Nature of Time from the Planck Time until Now, and Maybe Beyond
Apr 09, 2022: Johanna Teske (Carnegie Earth and Planets Lab), A Review of the Exoplanet-Host Star Composition Connection
Mar 12, 2022: Ira Thorpe (GSFC)), Bringing the Gravitational Wave Revolution to Space
Feb 12, 2022: Joe Pesce (NSF and George Mason University), Monsters in the Universe: New Insight into Black Holes
Jan 08, 2022: Peter Driscoll (Carnegie Earth and Planets Lab), Planetary Magnetic Fields: Generation, Detectability, and Habitability
Dec 11, 2021: Brian Williams (GSFC), Supernova Remnants
Nov 13, 2021: Julie McEnery (GSFC), The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Oct 09, 2021: Lynn Wilson, III (GSFC), Particle Energization Within Collisionless Shock Waves
Sep 11, 2021: Heidi Hammel (AURA), What the James Webb Space Telescope Will Tell Us About the Solar System
May 08, 2021: Joe Helmboldt (NRL), Radio Astronomy Observes Earth's Ionosphere
Apr 10, 2021: Tess Jaffe (UMD and GSFC), IMAGINE'ing Galactic Magnetic Fields
Mar 13, 2021: Tom Field (Field Tested Systems), Astronomical Spectra With Your Own Telescope
Feb 13, 2021: Eliza Kempton (UMD), The Atmospheres of Extrasolar Super-Earths
Jan 09, 2021: Tony Farnham (UMD), Spontaneous Outbursts: New Studies of Cometary Activity
Dec 12, 2020: Bethany Cobb Kung (GWU), Shedding Light on Gravitational Waves
Nov 14, 2020: Anat Shahar (Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory), A Geochemist's Perspective on Planetary Differentiation
Oct 10, 2020: Michael Walter (Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory), Deep Blue Planet
Sep 12, 2020: Tommy Wikland (CUA), The Evolution of Galaxies over Cosmic Time
On YouTube, recorded by R. Chappelle
11 Jan 2020: Amy Simon (GSFC)
The Mysteries of the Ice Giants
14 Dec 2019: Larry Nittler (CIW)
A Cometary Fossil Inside an Asteroidal Meteorite
9 Nov 2019: Antonio Paris (Center for Planetary Science)
360: Lava Tubes on Mars: Leveraging Volcanic Features to Reduce Exposure to Radiation , (3D)
12 Oct 2019: Duilia F. de Mello (CUA)
Interacting Galaxies and Blue Blobs , (3D)
14 Sep 2019: Carrie M. Anderson (GSFC)
NASA Cassini's 13-year Journey in the Saturn System
11 May 2019: Noel Klingler (Penn State)
The Winds and Nebulae of Pulsars
13 Apr 2019: Noam R. Izenberg (JHUAPL
Optimized Broadband Colors for Discriminating Earth-like Exoplanets
9 Feb 2019: Elizabeth Ferrara (UMd, GSFC)
Using Pulsar Timing Arrays to Detect Supermassive Black Hole Mergers
12 Jan 2019: Dean Howarth and Rachel O'Connell
An Interview with Einstein
8 Sep 2018: Erik Blaufuss (UMD)
High Energy Neutrinos Detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
10 Feb 2018: Brett Denevi (JHUAPL)
The New Moon , (3D)
13 Jan 2018: Dean Howarth and Rachel O'Connell
An Evening with Isaac Newton
9 Dec 2017: Mario Gliozzi (GMU)
Black Holes at All Scales: An X-Ray View
11 Nov 2017: Alexander van der Horst (GWU)
Hunting for Jets in the Radio Sky
9 Sep 2017: Michael F. Corcoran (CUA, GSFC)
The Lives and Deaths of Extremely Massive Stars , (3D)
14 Jan 2017: Dean Howarth and Jeffrey Jones (Natural Philosophers & Educators)
Kepler Debates Tycho: Does the Earth Orbit the Sun?
12 Nov 2016: Pamela Gales Conrad (GSFC)
Sizing up the Planetary Neighborhood: Why are Earth and Mars so Different?
11 April 2015: Timothy Rodigas (Carnegie DTM)
High Resolution Views of Planets and Disks
8 Mar 2014: Elizabeth Hays (GSFC)
Cosmic-ray Protons from Supernova Remnants
8 Feb 2014: Holly Gilbert (GSFC)
Our Dynamic Sun
12 Oct 2013: Sarah Brown (NCA)
The Back Door to Astronomy
11 May 2013: Brett Denevi (JHUAPL)
MESSENGER's Surprising Images of Mercury
Updated by E. Warner on 10 Dec 2024.