Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 10:25am

Tyler, Texas (KETK) The Tyler Junior College Astronomy Lecture Series will continue Thursday.

Fracking, climate change, the 'God particle', and other top science stories of 2013 will be discussed during the January edition of the Public Astronomy Lecture Series at TJC.

The event is set for 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 30, at the Center for Earth & Space Science Education at TJC which is located at 1411 E. Lake Street on the TJC main campus.

Admission is $5 per person or free with a valid TJC ID, the public is invited to attend.

Programp speaker, Dr. Tom Hooten, is the director of the Center for Earth & Space Science Education and professor of physics and engineering at TJC.

He holds degrees in physics, astronomy, and higher education from the Texas A&M University in Commerce and Vanderbilt University.

The Public Astronomy Lecture Series began in 2004 and continues today as part of the science and education outreach of the Center for Earth & Space Science Education at Tyler Junior College.

Other upcoming programs include:

For more information on TJC science center events, go to http://www.tjc.edu/cesse or http://www.facebook.com/TJCCenterforEarthandSpaceScience.

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Astronomy lecture continues this week at TJC