Inside Iowa State
March 17, 2000
Astronomy discoveries highlighted
by Skip Derra
A free seminar on new
discoveries in astronomy and how technological advances help
open the heavens to astronomers will be held at 7 p.m.
Friday, March 31, at Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building.
The seminar, "To the Edge of the Universe: New Telescopes, New Tools and New Discoveries," will feature some of the latest, most breathtaking -- even bizarre -- images obtained from the heavens.
"We are in a golden age of astronomical discovery, and what we are observing in the universe is both beautiful and stunning," said Curt Struck, one of the seminar's presenters.
"The images are quite spectacular and include some of the latest ones obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope," he added. "This seminar is really for anyone who has any interest in astronomy."
The seminar will feature presentations by astronomers Struck and Steve Kawaler. Phil Appleton, a third ISU astronomer, will phone in to talk about the astronomical objects he is observing at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona.
Topics will include:
- What comes after the Hubble Space Telescope and what it
will see
- A telescope tied together by the Internet
- How astronomers overcome the limits of the human brain in interpreting deep space images.
Steve Herrnstadt, art and design, will moderate. Herrnstadt specializes in visualization and will make a presentation that correlates images from the macro (astronomical) to the microscopic worlds.
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