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 most-talked-about subjects in astronomy, space science, and space exploration. Seating is first come, first served.

NEXT PRESENTATION: Friday, February 5th, 2010 7:30 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.

Featuring the latest news from space!

	Haiti Earthquake: Living on an Active Planet

	Waking Up the Quiet Sun

	Coming Attractions: Astronomy and Space in 2010

	Pictures Gallery: Hubble, Moon, Mars, and more

	Plus February Sky Report

Previously, on All Space Considered:

December, 2009 Edition:

	Featured Topic: The Truth About 2012 Dr. E. C. Krupp, Director, Griffith Obersevator, 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.

	Water on the Moon: what does it mean?

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

	New Views of the Heart of the Milky Way Galaxy

	Mars Rover in Trouble?



November, 2009 Edition:

	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 discovered at the edge of the solar system

	Organic molecules found in a distant planet

	Maiden flight of a new U.S. rocket

	Latest images from Mars and Hubble

	November Sky Report



October, 2009 Edition:

	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.

	Refurbished Hubble Space Telescope Releases Its First New Images

	Water on the Moon and Mars

	Ares I/X test flight on Oct 31st

	LCROSS impact tests for ice on the Moon Oct 9th

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

September, 2009 Edition:

	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

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

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

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