"Eyes on the Universe: Southern California's Leardership in Astronomy Today"

Dr. John Mulchaey is the Director of Observatories at the Carnegie institue for Science in Pasadena. John oversees, among other things, the Giant Magellan Telescope under construction in Chile.

• Intelligent life on other planets?
• Looking back to the beginning of time.
• How the universe is expanding at a rapid increasing rate.
• How gold is created when two stars collide.