Never-Before-Seen: Details of an Early Universe
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Date & Time
Mon, Nov 14 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Address (map)
UCSB
Venue (website)
Campbell Hall
UCSB Global Engagement and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History are pleased to welcome the public to a riveting multimedia presentation by NASA scientist Dr. Matthew Greenhouse on the James Webb Space Telescope.
The free event will take place at UCSB in Campbell Hall on Monday, November 14 at 4:00 PM. It kicks off UCSB’s celebration of International Education Week, a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education.
The James Webb Space Telescope was launched on December 25, 2021, having been developed by NASA in partnership with the European and Canadian Space Agencies. It is the largest space telescope ever constructed, and will extend humanity’s view of the universe into the infrared spectrum and reveal how our galaxies have evolved over cosmic time. The telescope will also explore exoplanet atmospheres for evidence of life.
Dr. Matthew Greenhouse is Project Scientist for the Webb science instrument payload. He has served on several NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) flight mission teams, and is a member of the NASA Astrophysics Working Group. He supports the National Science Foundation Committee of Visitors as part of his commitment to ground-based astronomy. He is also the recipient of more than 20 individual performance awards, including the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and the Robert H. Goddard Award for Science.
Dr. Greenhouse will describe the James Webb Space Telescope project’s findings to date, as well as future work to be undertaken by the project team.
Registration is recommended via https://shoreline.ucsb.edu/GobalEngagement/rsvp_boot?id=1875514.