Regular Monthly Meeting

The regular meeting of the AAAA will be held on Saturday, February 18^th at 7:30 PM in the Story County Conservation Center, at McFarland Park .

Topic: Hubble Deep/Ultra Deep Fields

Beginning 1995 astronomers began exploring the very early universe. They pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a very tiny, very empty looking spot in the sky near the big dipper. The telescope was set to gather photons from that small spot for a total of ten days, allowing it to record some incredibly faint objects. Later, the telescope was used to take photos that were even deeper into space. The objects that the telescope recorded are very far away and very far back in time; so using these data, astronomers are able to probe the early life of the universe. Join us as we look at impressive and beautiful astronomical images and explore the distant past.