In the eyes of Alex Filippenko, a renowned astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley, there are two types of science fiction shows: science fiction and extreme science fiction. "A lot ...

ASPEN The universe is expanding faster than we thought, and Dr. Alex Filippenko is coming to Aspen to provide the details.Filippenko, who was voted best professor at the University of California at ...

The cross-country trip made by world-renowned astronomy and astrophysics professor Alex Filippenko from California to St. Joseph Catholic School in Madison Friday was put in motion by a simple email ...

Berkeley Distinguished Professor of Astronomy Alex Filippenko hosted a casual star-gazing session with friends in Woodside, California, on May 18. That night, he captured pictures of galactic objects ...

Annual perseid meteor seen in the sky on August 14, 2023, in Ratnapura, Sri Lanka. Annual perseid meteor seen in the sky on August 14, 2023, in Ratnapura, Sri Lanka ...

Alex Filippenko, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, will speak at UNO on March 25 (Courtesy of UNO and Pontchartrain Astronomy Society) Alex Filippenko, an astrophysicist at ...

Alex Filippenko, a professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley and a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, will present “The Accelerating Universe and the ...

Scientists have identified a type of supernova, or exploding star, that produces unusually large amounts of calcium — enough perhaps to explain the abundance of that element in the universe and in our ...

"It's a dirty ice ball ... or icy dirt ball." Alex Filippenko knows a thing or two about space. The astrophysicist, recipient of U.S. Professor of the Year and one of the most celebrated teachers at ...