Meeting - October 13, 2022

The James Webb Space Telescope represents one of the most staggering combined feats of science, technology, and engineering in human history.  From its inception in the mid-1990s, to its launch into space on Christmas Day 2021, more than 10,000 people collaborated in making this extraordinary instrument.  Immediately fulfilling its promise, the Telescope is now giving astronomers - and the public worldwide - astonishingly detailed, beautiful new images of our cosmos. Dr. Mulchaey discussed the secrets that these images are revealing, and new clues to the Universe that the Telescope is unlocking.