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Do you have questions about astronomy and various exciting recent discoveries such as exploding stars, black holes, the detection of gravitational waves, the discovery of thousands of exoplanets orbiting other stars, or anything else in the cosmos? Come to this Q&A session and general discussion!

One of the world's most highly cited astronomers, Alex Filippenko was the only person to have served on both teams that simultaneously discovered the Nobel-worthy accelerating expansion of the universe.
Voted UC Berkeley's ""Best Professor"" a record nine times, he appears frequently on TV documentaries and is addicted to observing total solar eclipses throughout the globe (16 so far).