{"id":2757,"date":"2021-07-29T21:17:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T21:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2021-07-29T21:30:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T21:30:39","slug":"gospacewatch-online-lecture-wednesday-18th-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/gospacewatch-online-lecture-wednesday-18th-august\/","title":{"rendered":"GoSpaceWatch Online Lecture Wednesday 18th August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The James Webb Space Telescope by John Thatcher (Wed 18th August) 19:30BST<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST &#8211; or just \u2018Webb\u2019 nowadays) is optimised for making infrared observations in order to study the origin and evolution of galaxies, stars and planetary systems and is designed to look further back in space and time than the Hubble Space Telescope. It is a massive international project, decades in the making involving NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/JWST.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2760 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/JWST-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/JWST-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/JWST-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/JWST.jpg 800w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/150;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The UK has a key role in leading a multi-national group that provides one of the 4 instruments on JWST with the lead scientist (ie Principal Investigator) based at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh and the Project Manager (myself) based in what is now Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This talk provides an overview of how JWST came to be, why it looks the way it does and a preview of what is to come when it is launched later in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This talk provides an overview of how JWST came to be, why it looks the way it does and a preview of what is to come when it is launched later in 2021.<br>Tickets just \u00a33.00 from <a href=\"https:\/\/webb.eventbrite.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/webb.eventbrite.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James Webb Space Telescope by John Thatcher (Wed 18th August) 19:30BST The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST &#8211; or just \u2018Webb\u2019 nowadays) is optimised for making infrared observations in order to study the origin and evolution of galaxies, stars and planetary systems and is designed to look further back in space and time than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Martin Baker","author_link":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/author\/martin_baker\/"},"featured_img":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 29 July, 2021","modified":"Updated on 29 July, 2021"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 29 July, 2021 9:17 pm","modified":"Updated on 29 July, 2021 9:30 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NBna-It","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fedastro.org.uk\/fas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}