Bruce Margon Speaking on Results from the Hubble Telescope on January 24, 2007

Astronomer Bruce Margon of the University of California, Santa Cruz, will give a non—technical, illustrated talk on:

“Glimpsing the Edge of the Universe: Results from the Hubble Space Telescope” as part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures in the Smithwick Theater, Foothill College, El Monte Road and Freeway 280, in Los Altos Hills, California. Free and open to the public. Parking on campus costs $2.

Call the series hot—line at 650—949—7888 for more information and driving directions. No background in science will be required for this talk.

The Hubble Space Telescope has now circled the Earth 15 times every day for more than 16 years. Dr. Margon, who was until recently the Associate Director for Science for the Telescope, will fill us in on the latest discoveries and ideas from this amazing instrument. (With the Hubble, astronomers have been glimpsing the most distant galaxies, whose light left them shortly after the Big Bang.) He will also discuss the future of the Hubble and some of its interesting sociology - the public reactions to it.

Dr. Margon is Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Santa Cruz, having arrived there in the Fall of 2006 after working at the Space Telescope Science Institute. He was a key member of the team that built one of the Hubble’s instruments, and also served as Scientific Director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Because of his skill in explaining astronomy in nontechnical terms, NASA has used him as one of its most frequent science commentators for the media when major discoveries from the Hubble were being announced

The lecture is co—sponsored by:

* NASA Ames Research Center

* The Foothill College Astronomy Program

* The SETI Institute

* The Astronomical Society of the Pacific.