Observing with the James Webb Space Telescope: Glimpsing the First Stars - Livestream

The Webb Telescope was designed to look back in time, to study the first generation of stars, and reveal our cosmic origins. In what is only its second year of operation, JWST has already brought us tantalizingly close to our dream of seeing those first stars. Dr. Coe will tell us about observations of “Earendel,” the most distant star known, seen as it was 13 billion years ago. And we will marvel at the beauty of even more distant star clusters, including the Arc of Cosmic Gems. These objects were some the most important discoveries from his Hubble observing program, among them the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 that became JWST's first stunning deep field. Soon the Euclid and Roman telescopes will survey much more of the sky, providing many more exciting targets for JWST to study in detail.

Speaker: Dan Coe is an ESA/AURA Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Watch the lecture on YouTube here.