How did NASA build the JWST and what has it already revealed?

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WEDNESDAY 17 MAY | 6 - 7pm BST | 1 - 2pm EDT | ON-DEMAND How did NASA build the JWST and what has it already revealed? Join senior project scientist for JWST and Nobel prizewinning astrophysicist John C Mather as he discusses the groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope including how NASA and its partners built JWST and shares some of the telescope's first discoveries.   The JWST, which launched in 2021 and began science operations in 2022, is now peering into the past to find the first objects that formed after the big bang and to study the first black holes, the growth of galaxies, the formation of stars and planetary systems, and more. About 100 times more powerful than the celebrated Hubble Space Telescope, JWST could observe a bumblebee at the Earth-moon distance, in reflected sunlight and thermal emission, and it promises to reveal many wonders of our universe. Find out more BONUS RESOURCES INCLUDED IN YOUR ONLINE TICKET SELECTED NEW SCIENTIST ARTICLES: How JWST could find signs of alien life in exoplanet atmospheres The hunt for habitable ocean worlds beyond our solar system 7 big questions the James Webb Space Telescope is about to answer ON-DEMAND VIDEO: The Origin of the Universe with Professor of Physics, Will Kinney Book your online ticket NEW EVENT SERIES FOR 2023: THE GREATEST PHYSICS EXPERIMENTS IN THE WORLD In this new series you can hear from experts at the leading-edge of scientific discovery, who work on enormous experiments like the Large Hadron Collider or the James Webb Space Telescope. Find out how these incredible facilities get built, how thousands of scientists collaborate effectively and what these groundbreaking experiments are telling us about the nature of our Universe. SECRETS OF THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER Clara Nellist, Physicist, ATLAS Experiment, CERN with Radboud University and Nikhef, Netherlands TUESDAY 7 FEBRUARY| 6-7pm GMT | 1-2pm EST | On-demand   FERMILAB: SOLVING THE MYSTERIES OF MATTER AND ENERGY, SPACE AND TIME Don Lincoln, Senior Scientist, Fermilab TUESDAY 4 APRIL | 6-7pm BST | 1-2pm EDT | On-demand  SAVE 20% ON A SERIES TICKET* Book your online ticket *Discount quoted is off the individual standard ticket price. Update preferences  |  Help  |  Contact us View in browser This email has been sent to submitpostforlive@gmail.com.   Unsubscribe from New Scientist Events emails Do not reply directly to this email. If you have an enquiry, please contact us using the relevant contact details listed here. Copyright © New Scientist Ltd Registered Office: Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London, W8 5TT Registered in England. No.10644366 Australian mailing address: PO Box 2315, Strawberry Hills, NSW 2012, Australia Registered in Australia. ABN 22 621 413 170   Privacy Policy  |  Terms & Conditions