The James Webb Space Telescope

IN PERSON meeting at the Highland Country Club. 11:30am buffet lunch with Club meeting from 12:00 to 1:00pm

Professor Els Peeters is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Western University and a research scientist at the SETI Institute in California. She is on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Users Committee and the Organizing Committee for the JWST Master Class Workshop, saying she is “totally biased here; I am absolutely thrilled about the observations of the Orion Nebula that Webb will take for our Early Release Science program”.

Els spoke to us via Zoom last year and now that the space telescope has been operational Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are getting their first look at star formation, gas, and dust in nearby galaxies with unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths.