University of Calgary

January 11, 2023, 2pm to 3:30pm Mountain Time, Hybrid Session. No Charge 

The James Webb Telescope- How it works, the Canadian contribution, and what have we learned so far.

Speaker: Phil Langill, Associate Professor (Teaching); Director - Rothney Astrophysical Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy . 

 The James Webb Space Telescope is a large infrared telescope with a 6.5 meter primary mirror. It is the world’s premier space science observatory. It will solve mysteries in our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners the European and Canadian Space Agencies. 

 Registration if attending the Virtual Session: https://go.ucalgary.ca/2022-01-11JamesWebTelescope_LPRegistration.html [1]