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Marker Lecture: Marcia Rieke, "JWST: 25 Years to Build, One Year to Change Astronomy"
Add to Calendar 2023-09-19T23:00:00 2023-09-20T00:30:00 UTC Marker Lecture: Marcia Rieke, "JWST: 25 Years to Build, One Year to Change Astronomy" 100 Huck Life Sciences Building
Start DateTue, Sep 19, 2023
7:00 PM
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End DateTue, Sep 19, 2023
8:30 PM
Presented By
Marcia Rieke

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Event Series: Marker Lecture Series

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most ambitious and complicated telescope ever to be launched into space. To design, build, and test a folding telescope more than 20 feet in diameter took a dedicated team of engineers and scientists. With the telescope performing beyond expectations, astronomers are rejoicing in the data that are overturning some of our previous thinking about distant galaxies and other objects.