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Topic -
From Galileo to Gossamer
From Galileo to Gossamer:
400 Years of Telescope Technology
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If you wish to view a tape of this show; Please contact Sherri Rowe-Lopez at (818) 354-6170.
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presented by Art B. Chmielewski,
Manager, Large Telescope Concepts Office
and Mark Dragovan, JPL Research Scientist
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Thursday, June 21
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The von Kármán Auditorium at JPL
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA
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Friday, June 22
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The Forum at Pasadena City College
1570 East Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA
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Both lectures begin at 7 p.m.
Admission is free. Seating is limited.
For more information, call (818) 354-0112.
Telescopes have come a long way since Galileo peered through his first "spy glass" nearly 400 years ago. Today, the Hubble Space Telescope regularly returns spectacular images of features throughout the universe. In the near future, inflatable "Gossamer" antennas will allow us to view the neighborhoods of black holes with 3,000 times better resolution than Hubble. While the future telescopes may be the size of a tennis court, they will be one hundred times lighter than existing technology. These "feather weights" of the future will significantly reduce launch costs and provide the sharpest views yet, helping us explore the farthest reaches of the universe. This lecture will examine how telescope technology has evolved over the centuries and how it will soon produce the most advanced space observatories ever built by humans.
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