All Space Considered

Griffith Observatory holds this exciting FREE public program on the first Friday of every month in the Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater. Join the Observatory's curatorial staff as they examine and explain the most-talked-about subjects in astronomy, space science, and space exploration. Seating is first come, first served.

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NEXT PRESENTATION: Friday, September 3, 2010

     
Mars and the Moon over Manhattan  

Mars is as big as the full moon - NOT!

 
Blackness  

Seeing in the dark: Dark matter, dark energy

 
Parachute Test  

Highlights and lowlights from commercial space exploration

 
Drowned Rickshaw  

Planet Earth report: Extreme planet

     
Hubble Image of the Coma Galaxy  

Beautiful astronomical images

     
Flash of light on Jupiter  

September sky report


Previously, on All Space Considered:

August 2010 Edition: SPECIAL EDITION: LIGHT OF THE VALKYRIES

Watch our new planetarium show, Light of the Valkyries, at 7:45 then follow us behind the scenes for The Making of Light of The Valkyries.

Tickets are required for Light of the Valkyries. Tickets go on sale at 7:00 p.m. for the 7:45 show. Tickets cannot be sold in advance. Prices are $7 for adults, $5 for FOTO members, seniors, and students, and $3 for children 5-12. Children under 5 cannot be admitted to the Samuel Oschin Planetarium. There can be no late seating. For more information on buying tickets, click here.

 

The Making of Light of The Valkyries and the rest of All Space Considered will begin at 8:30 p.m. in the Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon.

 

Report from Easter Island: Eclipse 2010

August Sky report: Perseid Alert!

 

July 2010 Edition:

Kepler finds 750 Planets?

Hanny's Voorwerp....what is it?

 

Hayabusa comes home from Itokawa

July Sky Report

 

Plan for the fall... What would you like to see at All Space Considered?

   
 

June 2010 Edition:

Black Holes Light Up
When Galaxies Merge
C. Don Dixon

Secret X37B Space Plane Spied On!

       

Mars Phoenix Lander Declared Dead!

June Sky Report: Ceres and Comet McNaught C/2009R1 and more!

       

Crazy Multi-Planetary System

 

May 2010 Edition:

 

First images of the sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory

 

Griffith Observatory's 75th birthday

           
 

Hubble's 20th birthday

 

Volcanoes in the solar system

           
 

Beautiful Astronomical Images

 

May Sky Report



April 2010 Edition:

           
 

Extreme Creatures - on Earth and Beyond

 

Who Owns the Moon?

           
 

The First Stars

 

Major Milestones in Private Space Exploration

           
 

Beautiful Astronomical Images: the Milky Way Halo, the Orion Nebula, and more

 

April Sky Report



Previously, on All Space Considered:

February, 2010 Edition:

           
Haitiquake  

Haiti Earthquake: Living on an Active Planet

Sun  

Waking Up the Quiet Sun

           
Comingup  

Coming Attractions: Astronomy and Space in 2010

 

Picture Gallery: Hubble, Moon, Mars, and more

           
DECSKY  

Plus February Sky Report

     
           

December, 2009 Edition:

Dr.Krupp

Featured Topic: The Truth About 2012
Dr. E. C. Krupp, Director, Griffith Observatory, presents Time's Up According to the rules of the Maya calendar system, a primary interval ends on the winter solstice, 2012. Recent claims promote the date's galactic alignment and link it with the detailed structure of the Milky Way Galaxy, information known only though modern astronomy. Dr. Krupp will detail how the 2012 beliefs about global transformation, solar system alignment, rogue planets, catastrophic pole shifts, and calamitous sunspots have been fabricated and marketed and what the universe is really doing on the winter solstice in 2012.

           
MoonBase  

Water on the Moon: what does it mean?

Atlantis  

Space Shuttle Atlantis' Penultimate Flight: the last crew rotation to the International Space Station

           
MilkyWay  

New Views of the Heart of the Milky Way Galaxy

Free Spirit  

Mars Rover in Trouble?

           

November, 2009 Edition:

Don Lincoln

Special Guest: Don Lincoln
Senior Physicist, currently affiliated with Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the United States’ premier particle physics laboratory. Don Lincoln is the author of the new book, The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider.  The Large Hadron Collider is a new “atom smasher” designed to recreate the conditions of the universe just scant fractions of a second after the Big Bang. In The Quantum Frontier, Dr. Lincoln explains the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the physics it is intended to explore.

           
A ribbon in the sky  

A ribbon in the sky discovered at the edge of the solar system

Atmosphere around distant planet  

Organic molecules found in a distant planet

           
Ares X Rocket experiencing bow shock  

Maiden flight of a new U.S. rocket

Hubble Space Telescope  

Latest images from Mars and Hubble

           
November Skyreport  

November Sky Report

     
           

October, 2009 Edition:

Andy Chaikin

Special Guest: Andy Chaikin
Award-winning science journalist and space historian Andrew Chaikin has authored books and articles about space exploration and astronomy for more than 25 years. Mr. Chaikin is best known as the author of A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, widely regarded as the definitive account of the moon missions. This acclaimed work was the main basis for Tom Hanks' 12-part HBO miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon, which won the Emmy for best miniseries in 1998. Mr. Chaikin discussed NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), including its crash to the lunar surface, scheduled for October 9th, 2009.

           
Hubble Image  

Refurbished Hubble Space Telescope Releases Its First New Images

Moon  

Water on the Moon and Mars

           
Ares I-X  

Ares I/X test flight on Oct 31st

LCROSS  

LCROSS impact tests for ice on the Moon Oct 9th

           
Sky Map  

Plus October Sky Report and all the latest news from space!

     
           

September 2009 Edition:

Enceladus  

Cool Topic for a Hot Summer: Ice in the Solar System Icy moons of the outer solar system + Comet cocktails and life of Earth Latest news from the Martian poles + Water ice of Earth's moon? Ice on Earth: Past, Present, Future

Ron Kwok  

Meet Ron Kwok Polar Remote Sensing Scientist from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

           
Extrasolar Planets  

Planetary "Pile-up" Around Another Star. Could it happen here?

Sky Map  

September Sky Report What's Happening in the sky this month?