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6 – 7 p.m., Sept. 18, 2013
September 18, 2013
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Presenter: Chris Impey
Distinguished Professor of Astronomy takes us on a tour of mirror-making and the quest to capture light from remote regions of time and space. The largest mirrors in the world are created under the football stadium at the University of Arizona, and we use them to see billions of times fainter than the human eye. Big telescopes are time machines, taking us closer to the big bang, and a time when the universe was hot and dense and no stars of galaxies had yet formed. Join us for a multimedia tour of frontier technology and the limits of cosmic vision.