QuickBites, a Forum for Urgent News : The Webb Telescope
Channel: SJSUCollegeHA
Date: 05/02/2022

Live-streamed and recorded, February 1, 2022

"Just because we made it look easy doesn't mean it was easy."  - Bill Ochs, #NASAWebb project manager. 

The Webb Space Telescope is fully deployed! One million kilometers from Earth and intended to “probe the atmospheres of potentially habitable exoplanets, peer back in time at galaxies that formed during the early years of the universe, and investigate Solar System moons that may have some form of life in their subsurface oceans” (according to Passant Rabie, Inverse). How did aerospace engineers accomplish this feat? Why the location (L2) for its orbit? How do engineers know that the telescope will remain in orbit? How did they test all the mechanical functions prior to launch? What are the most exciting things we will learn from the telescope? What will the pictures look like? Is the Webb like the Hubbel? Will we be able to see other planets and galaxies? (See more about the launch, deployment, and possibilities at NASA Webb Telescope)

Watch this exciting conversation between Ali Guarneros Luna (Senior NASA aerospace engineer) and Michael Kauffman (Professor of Astronomy) about the launch of the Webb Space Telescope and all of its possibilities. Coming to you virtually live-streamed from the Hammer Theatre Center Mercury Newsroom. 

QuickBites is a new initiative sponsored by H&A in Action, H&A in San Jose, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library to bring you informal conversations about the most urgent news of the moment. Each month, two faculty from San José State University will dive into an informal conversation about the most urgent news of our time. 

Speakers:
*Michael Kauffman: https://www.sjsu.edu/science/about-us/dean-message.php
*Ali Guarneros: https://www.sjsu.edu/ae/faculty_staff/part-time/ali_guarneros-luna.php

Links:
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*Make Your Own JWST Paper Model (NASA): https://webb.nasa.gov/content/features/educational/paperModel/paperModel.html
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