Straughn has been involved in NASA programs since her undergraduate years. Willoughby will describe the daunting technological challenges that the program engineers had to overcome and the innovative solutions they devised to achieve the desired performance in an instrument capable of surviving the rigors of launch and operation in the space environment. These include detecting the first luminous objects that arose after the Big Bang, studyof the evolution of galaxies over the past 13.5 billion years in a new way, study of star birth and protoplanetary systems, exoplanet transit spectroscopy, and study of objects within our own solar system. Straughn will present the exciting new science goals of Hubble’s 100-times-more-powerful successor, which is currently being built and tested and will be launched in 2018. As a result, new questions have arisen that demand a new space telescope with new technologies and capabilities. In 2009, a complete makeover of Hubble gave new life to the instrument and produced a second wave of groundbreaking science results. It has single-handedly revolutionized our understanding of the universe. The speakers are Amber Straughn, an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Center and a member of the JWST project science team, and Scott Willoughby, vice president at Northrup Grumman and the JWST program director.įor almost a quarter century, the Hubble Space Telescope has been revealing unknown aspects of the cosmos in stunning detail. and will be held in the Stevenson Center, Room 4309, on campus.
HUBBLE TELESCOPE DRAWING FREE
(NASA)Īn astrophysicist and an aerospace engineer who are members of the team developing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2018 – are giving a free public lecture on Thursday, March 31, titled “Beyond Hubble: A New Era in Astronomy with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.” The colloquium is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Artist's rendering of the James Webb Space Telescope.
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