James Webb Space Telescope ONLINE
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On Christmas Day, NASA successfully launched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a successor to the Hubble. The telescope is planned to be commissioned in late June or early July. Learn how the JWST differs from Hubble, where it is and why it is deployed there, and how its mission fits into the overall NASA mission. The presentation will also cover its cryo-vacuum testing and what was done to make this telescope ready to function in the coldness of space. There will also be an update as to how its commissioning is going.
About presenter of Jay Bakst:
Jay Bakst has been an amateur astronomer for 40 years. In that time, he has travelled the world to witness 7 total solar eclipses and one annular eclipse as well as Halley’s comet and astronomical sites. He has visited the Goddard Space Center where JWST was assembled. He has built his own telescope and was in the first Gold Certificate class of amateur astronomers at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. He was a member of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and is a member and presenter of Battle Point Astronomical Association.
