AstroNights LIVE: The Nuts and Bolts of the James Webb Space Telescope:
How the JWST Will Function in Order to Perform its Mission
Wednesday, August 18, 7:30pm
Recording will also be available on our Youtube Channel after the event.
Program Description:
Program will be approximately 30 minutes + Q&A
Can origami help scientists alter our understanding of the universe? If you were wondering, the answer is yes!
The James Webb Space Telescope is a revolutionary successor to the Hubble Telescope and 100 times more powerful. It has taken 100 million hours of people’s lives to build JWST, the largest, most complex and powerful space telescope ever built. An international team of engineers created an origami-styled observatory that can be neatly folded inside a conventional rocket and then unfolded once in space.
In this presentation, we will get a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most daring scientific missions ever attempted!
Webb will make observations once thought to be impossible, and multiple new technologies had to be invented simply to build it. The groundbreaking mirror and powerful instruments will look deep into the past, to a time when the earliest stars and galaxies were born. Webb will also discover and study distant planetary systems, analyzing the molecular composition of extrasolar planets’ atmospheres and directly imaging Jupiter-size planets orbiting nearby stars.
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Resources:
The links below include resources mentioned during the program, suggested follow-up activities, and more!
More information about Webb:
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