HUNTSVILLE — They say a picture is worth a thousand words and the picture the James Webb Space Telescope paints of the cosmos is the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Dr. Jon Arenberg, chief engineer of the James Webb Space Telescope, will give two presentations Saturday at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s Intuitive Planetarium. Show times are 4 p.m. and 7.
Indeed, the images the telescope sends back to earth are provocative and cosmically spectacular.
The presentation will explore the unique design of the Webb Space Telescope and enjoy image highlights from the past years’ worth of data.
Intuitive Planetarium Director David Weigel will host the events with Arenberg, discussing the extraordinary discoveries made since the Webb Telescope launched just over a year ago.
Arenberg, the chief engineer for Space Science Missions at Northrop Grumman, served in technology development, systems design leader, systems manager, and chief engineer of the program.
According to NASA, the Webb Space Telescope allows scientists look at what our universe was like about 200 million years after what has been referred to as the Big Bang.
The telescope has captured images of some of the first galaxies ever formed, observing objects in the solar system from Mars outward. Scientists use infrared cameras to look inside dust clouds where they see new stars and planets forming, and are able to examine the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars.
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