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DESCRIPTION:Stanford University’s Astronomy Program presents the 37th Annua
 l Bunyan Lecture\, Free and open to the public.\n\nJohn Mather\, Nobel Laur
 eate and Senior Project Scientist with James Webb Space Telescope - “Openin
 g the Infrared Treasure Chest with JWST”\n\nThe James Webb Space Telescope 
 was launched on Dec. 25\, 2021\, and commissioning was completed in early J
 uly 2022. With its 6.5 m golden eye\, and cameras and spectrometers coverin
 g 0.6 to 28 μm\, Webb is already producing magnificent images of galaxies\,
  active galactic nuclei\, star-forming regions\, and planets. Scientists ar
 e hunting for some of the first objects that formed after the Big Bang\, th
 e first black holes (primordial or formed in galaxies)\, and beginning to o
 bserve the growth of galaxies\, the formation of stars and planetary system
 s\, individual exoplanets through coronography and transit spectroscopy\, a
 nd all objects in the Solar System from Mars on out. It could observe a 1 c
 m2 bumblebee at the Earth-Moon distance\, in reflected sunlight and thermal
  emission. I will show how we built the Webb and what we hope to find. Webb
  is a joint project of NASA with the European and Canadian space agencies. 
 \n\n Dr. John C. Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist and is the Senior Projec
 t Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at NASA’s Goddard Spa
 ce Flight Center. Since the project start in 1995\, he has led the JWST sci
 ence teams. As a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space 
 Studies he led the proposal efforts for the Cosmic Background Explorer (74-
 76)\, and came to GSFC to be the Study Scientist (76-88)\, Project Scientis
 t (88-98)\, and the Principal Investigator for the Far IR Absolute Spectrop
 hotometer (FIRAS) on COBE. With the COBE team\, he showed that the cosmic m
 icrowave background radiation has a blackbody spectrum within 50 parts per 
 million\, confirming the expanding universe model to extraordinary accuracy
 . The COBE team also made the first map of the hot and cold spots in the ba
 ckground radiation (anisotropy). Dr. Mather received the Nobel Prize in Phy
 sics (2006) with George Smoot\, for the COBE work.\n\n Photos - NASA
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SUMMARY:John Mather - "Opening the Infrared Treasure Chest with JWST” (The 
 37th Annual Bunyan Lecture)
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