Oh, Oh, Astronomy cast episode 729 James James Webb Space Telescope.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly Facts-based Journey Through the Cosmos, where we help you understand

not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

I'm Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of University today with me as always is Dr.

Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of

Cosmoquest. Hey Pamela, how you doing? I am doing well. I'm having a super excited busy week because this Friday I am giving a talk at the St. Louis Science Center and then this weekend I have art in an art show at the local

science fiction and fantasy convention, O'Connor.

So yeah, it's a week of preparing to talk about science and show what that science can inspire

It's really cool and I'm gonna be on the road this week. So I'm going to Iceland and then Amsterdam and I will be back on the 11th and so we're not

going to do an episode next week and then we'll pick things up when I get back.

So...

It is awesome. I can't wait to hear all about your adventures with Child One.

Yeah, well last time I was in Iceland, it was during solar minimum. And so there was not a lot of aurora

activity and now we are just six months away from solar maximum so I like my

chances. Yeah.

We have been waiting our entire careers to make this episode on the James Webb Space Telescope,

aka JWST.

This historic observatory was launched just a couple of years ago and is already

overturning our understanding of the early universe, star formation, and exoplanets.

And we will talk about it in a second second but it's time for a break.

And we're back.

So before we get too deep into the story, do we want to just address the name issue first and sort of before we just keep going because okay so like there is a

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