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Exciting Results with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

When
18 Jun 2025
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco

Abstract: JWST, the largest telescope in space, detects infrared (heat)

radiation, providing information not available to the Hubble Space Telescope.
It allows astronomers to study the birth of stars, newly formed dust in the
gases ejected by dying stars, and the atmospheric composition of planets
orbiting other stars. Among JWST’s most surprising results so far is the very
early formation of galaxies after the Big Bang.

Bio: Alex Filippenko is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences
and one of the world's most highly cited astrophysicists. He studies exploding
stars, black holes, galaxies, and the expansion of the Universe. Voted the
“Best Professor” on campus a record 9 times, in 2006 he was named the
National Professor of the Year. He has produced 5 video courses, coauthored
an award-winning astronomy textbook, and appears in more than

120 TV documentaries.

Exciting Results with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

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