JWST: The Solar System Frontier

Join us in the Roy Smith Theatre for our monthly meeting, 4/19/24, with guest speaker Dr. Ian Wong from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbrook, Maryland. Dr. Wong will be speaking in person at the meeting. JWST is shedding new light on the vast collection of primitive objects in the Kuiper belt, far beyond the orbit of Neptune. The groundbreaking telescope is illumination things long unknown about their surface composition and physical properties.

And a reminder to SAVE THE Read the rest “JWST: The Solar System Frontier”

AAI is celebrating 75 years as an astronomy club! Sperry Observatory is open to the public on Fridays from 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm for observing (weather permitting). A presentation is given at 8:30 pm on an astronomy related topic.  Register at the entrance to the Observatory.

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