Wednesday, April 26, 2017
7:30 PM - 9:30 AM (ET)
H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center Grove Theatre
Event Type
(none)
Contact
Dr. Kathryn Shirk
717-477-1570
Department
Physics Department
Link
https://events.ship.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=5039
24 KARAT MAGIC AT L2: THE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE
The James Webb Space Telescope, successor to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, will be the most powerful space telescope ever built. It will observe the most distant objects in the universe, provide images of the first generation of galaxies, and see unexplored planets around distant stars.
The speaker, Dr. Eric Smith is program director for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (Webb telescope) at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.