Vernon Lecture

Alex Filippenko, one of the world's leading astronomers, will delve into this great cosmological mystery in “Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe,” on Saturday, Nov. 7, starting at 7 p.m., at the University of Delaware's Clayton Hall Conference Center.

The talk will culminate the Harcourt C. “Ace” Vernon Public Lecture Series hosted by UD's Delaware Asteroseismic Center and sponsored by the Mt. Cuba Astronomical Observatory in Greenville, Del., in honor of the International Year of Astronomy.

The lecture is free and open to the public.