James Web Space Telescope: Revealing the Invisible Universe - Livestream

The universe is filled with beauty beyond even our wildest imaginations. Sophisticated observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope help us peer into that sublime reality, and it is to the great fortune of humanity that these science instruments produce data that captures the essence of the natural beauty of the cosmos.

However, without a careful eye toward revealing that beauty, the data would remain black-and-white snapshots for scientific analysis rather than admiration. Astronomical image processors blend the artistic visual principles with the scientific knowledge of how these observatories operate and the objects they study to compose images that capture the imagination and inspire the viewer to learn more about our universe.

In this talk, Principal Science Visuals Developer Joseph DePasquale will provide some background on the observatory and the art and science of image processing that reveals the inherent beauty of the infrared universe.

Speaker: Joe DePasquale, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore MD

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