First images: James Webb Space Telescope’s new view of the cosmos. Courtesy image
World Science Festival News:
Scientists have waited a generation to see the stunning images that the James Webb Telescope is now delivering.
In a live online Q+A, (link), Brian Greene speaks with Nobel Prize-winner John Mather and other key project scientists about the telescope’s first full color images, looking back in time farther than ever before and providing unprecedented observations of the birth of stars and the formation of galaxies.
See the captivating first images and learn how understanding of astronomy could be changed forever.
This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.
Participants:
- John Mather
- Marcia Rieke
- George Rieke
- Rene Doyon
- Pierre Ferruit
Moderator:
- Brian Greene
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