Houssam Eddine Hariri High School is hosting Dr. Alan Hale, who is an American astronomer and the co-discoverer of the comet Hale-Bopp.

Dr. Hale is also a space researcher, the founder of the Earthrise institute which is designed to bring people of the world together through Astronomy, and an expert on near-earth objects and their possible impact on earth and the search for planets outside our solar system.

Comet Hale - Bopp is the most widely observed comet of the twentieth century, and one of the brightest seen for many decades.