This Week August 22, 1990.

SCIENCE

Latest images from outer space part of
Space Project ’90 at Royal B.C. Museum

emember when

you were a kid?
Popping an ice-

cream bucket

onto your head made you
into an astronaut and an
upended cardboard box
was a rocket or shuttle —
empty paper towel rolls
made great telescopes.
The whole shebang cost no
more than a quarter and
- took you to the outer
wgeaches of the universe...

> Real space travel, of course, is
@ more complicated than that. But
its no less magical, and that’s
the secret people at the Royal
B.C. Museum want to share
August 27 to September 2.

Space Project 90; the
public will see the latest images
collected from observatories and
space probes and will hear
presentations from scientists
who are leading today’s space
exploration programs. The live

presentations will be followed by
question periods; if you wonder.
about quasars, UFO’s, or the
Milky Way, you'll have the
chance to satisfy your curiosity.

Topics of discussion will in-
clude the Hubble telescope (how
it will be repaired and what re-
search it is currently doing), the
Freedom Space Station (an in-
ternational multi-use station),
phenomoena of deep space
(quasars and Black Holes, for
example), the future of a
Manned mission to Mars and
the Astro mission (a laboratory
located in the space shuttle). As
the Magellan Space Probe
returns its findings to Earth,
participants will see never-
before viewed radar mapping of
Venus. As comet Levy — a
newly-discovered comet — ap-
proaches Earth, it will be viewed
through a telescope.

But space-study isn't taking
place only at the museum. On
days when weather permits, the
public is invited to meet at the
Beacon Hill Park flag pole from
8:45 p.m. until 10 p.m.. Canada’s

ITS ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU SPIN — an amazing amount of information is collected about
outer space. It’s now even possible, as this picture proves, to photograph spiral galaxies.

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Such an idea used to be the stuff of science fiction.

Royal Astronomical Society will —

help people to view Saturn’s
rings, the Hercules Globular
Cluster and the Ring Nebula.

Admission to all events is free.
For more information, call 387-
2150.

CHALLENGING THE LIMITS of
our understanding, Chat
lenger and the Hubble Tele-
scope are two examples of
modem space technology.
Although such. instrumenta-
tion may not always operate
perfecily, if offers amazing
looks at space and gives us
information about other
planets. Besides satisfying an
age-old curiosity about these
planets, such information
may eventually answer ques-
tions about Earth.

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