![I'm Alex Filippenko, astrophysicist and enthusiastic science popularizer at the University of California, Berkeley. AMA! : r/IAmA I'm Alex Filippenko, astrophysicist and enthusiastic science popularizer at the University of California, Berkeley. AMA! : r/IAmA](https://external-preview.redd.it/2M_Q_65Q5m4Kp1CVz39pKPypnNXqBxmfakOUttZ_MfQ.jpg?auto=webp&s=c0f78a02625b84f66187646894d7c143d9862341)
I'm Alex Filippenko, astrophysicist and enthusiastic science popularizer at the University of California, Berkeley. AMA! : r/IAmA
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Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #137 - YouTube
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![Dr. Alex Filippenko, right, and Dr. Kim Weaver demonstrate what happened when a supermassive black hole ripped apart a star and consumed a portion of it, on February 18, 2004 at NASA Dr. Alex Filippenko, right, and Dr. Kim Weaver demonstrate what happened when a supermassive black hole ripped apart a star and consumed a portion of it, on February 18, 2004 at NASA](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/W0CAHE/dr-alex-filippenko-right-and-dr-kim-weaver-demonstrate-what-happened-when-a-supermassive-black-hole-ripped-apart-a-star-and-consumed-a-portion-of-it-on-february-18-2004-at-nasa-headquarters-in-washington-the-event-which-was-recordered-by-nasa-has-long-been-predicted-by-theory-but-never-confirmed-until-now-upi-photomichael-kleinfeld-W0CAHE.jpg)
Dr. Alex Filippenko, right, and Dr. Kim Weaver demonstrate what happened when a supermassive black hole ripped apart a star and consumed a portion of it, on February 18, 2004 at NASA
UC Berkeley Department of Astronomy - Professor Alex Filippenko has been awarded the American Astronomical Society's 2022 Education Prize “for his passionate and wildly popular teaching of non-science majors; his mentoring of
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