This lecture series held at the Abrams Planetarium surveys the latest developments in astronomy. Astronomical Horizons is offered by the Department of Physics and Astronomy through its astronomy group and Abrams Planetarium. Each talk begins and 7:30 p.m. and there is no charge for admission. 

	September 20, 2007: "Space Astronomy: Fifty Years After Sputnik" Horace Smith, professor of physics and astronomy.
	October 18, 2007: "Chasing the Brightest Explosions in the Universe: Gamma-ray Bursts" Ed Brown, assistant professor of physics and astronomy.
	November 15, 2007: "Tales from the Many Tails of Comets" Arunav Kundu, research assistant professor and assistant professor of physics and astronomy.
	January 17, 2008: "Red and Dead? : The Strange Lives of Elliptical Galaxies" Megan Donahue, associate professor of physics and astronomy.
	February 21, 2008: "Galactic Ecology" Mark Voit, associate professor of physics and astronomy.
	March 20, 2008: "What's New about Planets around other Stars" Stephen Zepf, professor of physics and astronomy.
	April 17, 2008: "When the Sun swallows the Earth (and other impending astronomical catastrophes)" Jack Baldwin, professor of physics and astronomy.