Event
IREAP Paint Branch Lecture - John Mather
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
4:00 p.m.
1101 Clark Hall
Darcy Long
301 405 3114
dlong123@umd.edu
Speaker: John Mather, College Park Professor of Physics and NASA Senior Scientist
The James Webb Space Telescope was launched on December 25, 2021, with commissioning complete in early July 2022. With its 6.5-meter golden eye, cameras and spectrometers, the Webb Telescope is already producing magnificent images of galaxies, active galactic nuclei, star-forming regions and planets.
Scientists are beginning to observe the growth of galaxies, the formation of stars and planetary systems, individual exoplanets through coronagraphy and transit spectroscopy, and all objects in the Solar System from Mars and beyond. In this year's Paint Branch Lecture, John Mather will explain how he and his team built the Webb Telescope and the discoveries they hope to make with its data. The Webb Telescope is a joint project of NASA with the
European and Canadian space agencies.
