Alex Filippenko
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Alex Filippenko is Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and earned his Ph.D. in Astronomy from the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Filippenko's research accomplishments, documented in more than 500 scientific publications and 600 abstracts and astronomical circulars, are among the most highly cited in the world. He has been recognized with several major awards
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- a grand tour of the cosmos
- Journey Through Space and Time
- The Fingerprints of Atoms
- Light, The Supreme Informant
- Tools Of The Trade
- Lunar Phases and Glorious Eclipses
- The Copernican Revolution
- The Dark Side of Matter
- Our Sun, The Nearest Star
- The Age of the Universe
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- On the Shoulders of Giants
- Hearts of Darkness
- The Corpses of Massive Stars
- The Quest for Black Holes
- The Fate of Our Sun
- Echoes of the Big Bang
- Are We Alone The Search Begins
- Social Stars, Binaries and Clusters
- The Expansion of the Universe
- Distant Suns
- Space Telescopes and the Celestial Sphere
- In The Belly Of The Beast
- In the Beginning
- One Small Step, The Earth and Moon
- Paradise Lost, Venus and Mars
- Planetary Behemoths, Jupiter and Saturn
- Distant Worlds and Solar-System Debris
- Quasars, Cosmic Powerhouses
- The Early History of Astronomy
- One Giant Leap, Other Galaxies
- The Birth And Life Of Galaxies
- Comets and Catastrophic Collisions
- A Universe of Universe
- Starting at Home, The Milky Way
- Exploding Stars, Celestial Fireworks
- The Ultimate Free Lunch
- Communicating with Extraterrestrials
- Nature’s Nuclear Reactors
- The Geometry and Fate of the Universe
- Einstein’s Biggest Blunder
- Celestial Phenomena
- Blackbody Radiation
- The Supreme Informant
- A Multiverse? The Search for Life
- Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn
- The Ultimate Free Lunch?
- Catastrophic Collisions
- The Moon, Mercury, and Venus
- The Geometry of the Universe
- Cosmology and the Dark Night Sky
- The Earth: Our Home
- 03. Recent Discoveries in Our Solar System
- Stars: Distant Suns
- 05. The Formation and Evolution of Stars
- 01. From Dawn to Dusk
- Einstein's Biggest Blunder?
- The Contents of the Universe
- Extra-Solar Planets; Our Sun
- Introduction
- Universe expansion
- 04. Other Worlds Galore
- Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto
- Scientific revolutions
- From Dawn to Dusk
- Comets and Solar-System Debris
- How Stars Shine: Cosmic Furnaces
- 06. Supernovae Catastrophic Stellar Explosions
- 08. Observational Evidence for Black Holes
- The First Few MInutes of the Universe
- 13. The Stuff of the Cosmos
- 16. Our Universe, One of Many
- Lect 01. A Grand Tour of the Cosmos
- Light -- The Supreme Informant
- Exploding Stars: Celestial Fireworks
- Dark Energy
- Asteroid hitting Earth
- Giant solar flares and the power grid
- 15. Theories of Everything, and Hidden Dimensions
- 12. The Accelerating Expansion of the Universe
- 10. Cosmology and Cosmic Expansion
- 14. Dark Energy May the Force Be With You
- 11. The Birth and Evolution of Galaxies
- 09. Einstein's Relativity
- 07. Gamma Ray Bursts and the Birth of Black Holes
- 02. Exploring the Night Sky
- UFO sightings
- What happened before the Big Bang?
- The Milky Way and Other Galaxies
- Elon Musk and space exploration
- Fermi Paradox
- Finding alien life would be bad news
- Universe expansion speed
- The universe is infinite
- Social Stars: Binaries and Clusters
- Exoplanets
- Traveling close to the speed of light
- Natures Nuclear Reactors
- Lect 04. The Fingerprints of Atoms
- The Stuff of the Cosmos
- Interstellar Travel; Conclusion - NOTE: When discussing special relativity - CS-350 - the ...
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