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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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BOISE, Idaho — If you've ever looked up at the night sky and thought "there's got to be more out there," it turns out there's some truth to that. Dr. Alex Filippenko is an astronomy researcher and ...

WASHINGTON (AP)-- In a stroke of cosmic luck, astronomers for the first time witnessed the start of one of the universe's most fiery events: the end of a star's life as it exploded into a supernova.

A dense, collapsed star spinning 707 times per second — making it one of the fastest spinning neutron stars in the Milky Way galaxy — has shredded and consumed nearly the entire mass of its stellar ...

Presenting the "5 Questions with David J Eicher" podcast, where top researchers in the field sit down with David J. Eicher and answer some of astronomy's most pressing questions. Astronomy ...