Space – The James Webb Space Telescope : Seeing The Past

This will be an online hosted presentation with Dr Glasse presenting remotely online and the audience assembling at ARU room QUE101.

The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest optical telescope in Space! It's high resolution and sensitivity allow it to view objects too old, distant or faint to be seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Launched in December 2021 it arrived in position in January 2022 and it's first images were released to the public in July 2022.

Alistair Glasse is the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) instrument scientist. He has worked as a project scientist for the Michelle Instrument at United Kingdom Infrared Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and as a research assistant in the Infrared Space Observatory team at European Space Agency (ESA)/ European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the
Netherlands. He has been building infrared instrumentation for astronomy for the past 30 years and will describe the commissioning and operation of the James Webb Space Telescope discussing the infrared instrument in particular.

Refreshments will be available from 30 minutes before the advertised start time.

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