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The Beauty Of Science

Science & Reason on Facebook: tinyurl.com This is an excerpt of a lecture given by Alexei V. Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy, for his class at UC Berkeley called “How Stars Shine: Cosmic Furnaces” (“Introduction General Astronomy”): • webcast.berkeley.edu Alex Filippenko’s research accomplishments, documented in about 500 published papers, have been recognized by several major prizes, and he is one of the world’s most highly cited astronomers. He has won the top teaching awards at Berkeley and has been voted the “Best Professor” on campus five times. In 2006, he was selected as the Carnegie/CASE Professor of the Year among doctoral institutions. He has produced three astronomy video courses with The Teaching Company and coauthored an award-winning textbook. He is an avid tennis player and hiker, enjoys world travel, and is addicted to experiencing total solar eclipses (8 and counting). • astro.berkeley.edu Thanks to RabidApe for inspiring me to make this video: www.youtube.com Subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com ————————————————————— SPACE: Want to know why we don’t have to worry about our sun burning out? It’s because long before that happens, the sun will expand so enormously that Earth will be cooked to a cinder. Take a tour through the solar system, learn about the event horizon of black holes and when our galaxy began. 1. Faster Than The Speed Of Light (1/2): The Universe …