James Webb Space Telescope First Results Q & A with Project Scientist John Mather, Nobel Prizewinner (#240)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 17 July 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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@NASAWebb Senior Project Scientist, and @NobelPrize winner, John Mather answers questions about the JWST from listeners of Into The Impossible. 📺 Watch my #JWST explainer here https://youtu.be/1MjR_A5oDyI Please join my mailing list; for your chance to win 4 billion year old space dust click here 👉 briankeating.com/list 📝 Get your copy of Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner here: https://urlgeni.us/amzn/TLANPW Please join my mailing list to win cool prizes; click here 👉 briankeating.com/list 📝 Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel to watch these interviews and other cool content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 Be my friend: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast.php A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone to an exciting episode of the Into the Impossible Podcast featuring yours
0:12.0	truly Dr Brian Keating, alongside a friend, a mentor,
0:16.5	a past guest, and a chapter in one of my books, John Mather, who's the senior project scientist of the James Webb Space Telescope.
0:25.0	And if you've been paying attention to the news or know anybody in the world, you know that the
0:30.5	James Webb Space Telescope released its first images and spectra this very
0:34.3	week.
0:35.3	And I'm so pleased that I had the opportunity to talk to anybody from the Webb Telescope
0:39.6	during what must have been an incredibly ambitious and incredibly exciting and demanding week for any
0:45.8	scientist, but especially to talk to the senior scientist like John, who is not only a Nobel
0:51.4	Laureate, but also an incredibly in-demand scientist for comments and for
0:57.4	actually setting the stage and the direction of instruments like Webb and being at NASA for as long as he has been
1:04.7	is basically his whole career. He's extremely connected to the future projects
1:09.3	at NASA itself is going to be producing not just the phenomenal science that he and his colleagues get to work on.
1:15.0	So I released a video this week, earlier this week, in that video I went through the five images or so that
1:22.0	web release to the public with my interpretation
1:23.7	and a little bit more information. I did release that as a podcast as well, although you
1:27.9	certainly should check out my YouTube channel, Dr Brian Keening, where I solicited
1:31.2	questions from you, the audience, for John Mather coming up for the interview
1:35.4	that you're about to hear.
1:37.0	So not only by subscribing to the YouTube channel where you get to see the stunning visual
1:40.7	the lights and some animations and some explainer content that I put together
1:46.6	after the description of the images in the spectrum.
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