Hello Everyone: Here's a little bit of extra information about the upcoming Special Lecture on Friday April 14th at 7:00PM. The presentation will be at the Aline Wilmot Skaggs Biology Building Auditorium on the University of Utah campus. This room is also used for the Frontiers of Science Lecture Series. The Aline Wilmot Skaggs Biology Building is just west of the U of U bookstore. For a map, click on http://www.map.utah.edu, click on "Buildings" and then scroll down to "Aline Wilmot Skaggs Biology......". Robert K. Wilson, Project Manager for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena California will be the guest speaker. This event is cosponsored by the Salt Lake Astronomical Society and the University of Utah Physics Department. Talk Title: The Spitzer Space Telescope: Exploring the Infrared Universe Mr Wilson will present an overview of the Spitzer Space Telescope and its Infrared view into the Universe. Spitzer, the last of the Great Observatories and the Infrared sibling to Hubble, Chandra, and Compton was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 25 August, 2003. During its mission Spitzer has and will continue to explore the Infrared Universe. Spitzer has used its infrared detectors to pierce the dusty darkness enshrouding many of the universe's most fascinating objects, including brown dwarfs, planet forming debris discs around stars and distant galaxies billions of light years away. Spitzer has done this by measuring the heat from these faraway objects, giving scientists a view of the birth of distant solar systems by penetrating the dust which has obscured these objects since man began to study the skies, the direct measurement of light from planets outside our solar system, discoveries of solar systems swirling around "puny failed stars" known as brown dwarfs and the discovery of some of the ingredients for DNA and proteins in the terrestrial planet zone of nearby stars. Spitzer has secured its place in planetary science history and continues to provide new views into the Cosmos not previously available to man. Mr Wilson will provide an overview of "this fantastic little observatory that could" and the science that it has and continues to flow from it.