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The James Webb Space Telescope: a great technological challenge to advance in the knowledge of the Cosmos
Life and Matter Sciences Conference Tuesday, 26 April 2022, 19:00 hours Madrid
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Venue: Fundación Ramón Areces - salón de actos. Calle Vitruvio, 5. 28006. Madrid.
Free admission. Necessary previous online registration. Limited capacity.
In cooperation with:
Real Academia de Ciencias and CAB (Centro de Astrobiología, INTA-CSIC)
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The James Webb Space Telescope: a great technological challenge to advance in the knowledge of the Cosmos
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the top priority NASA project for the exploration of the Universe, in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). It is considered the scientific successor of the iconic Hubble Space Telescope, and represents a much improved version of it thanks to its larger primary mirror, its ability to analyse infrared light, and for its sophisticated suit of scientific instruments. For all these reasons, the James Webb will be able to study hitherto unexplored objects, regions and periods in the history of the Universe, and thus make fundamental contributions in many fields of astronomy. This conference will summarize the main scientific themes of James Webb and Hubble's legacy in some of them, such as the study of the early Universe and the characterization of exoplanets. Likewise, the fundamental characteristics of the telescope and some of the technological challenges that have been necessary to overcome will be described. The European and Spanish participation in the project will also be briefly commented and, finally, the current status of the telescope and the next phases before the start of its scientific operations.
This conference will summarize the main scientific themes of James Webb and Hubble's legacy in some of them, such as the study of the early Universe and the characterization of exoplanets. Likewise, the fundamental characteristics of the telescope and some of the technological challenges that have been necessary to overcome will be described. The European and Spanish participation in the project will also be briefly commented and, finally, the current status of the telescope and the next phases before the start of its scientific operations.
Tuesday, 26 April
18:30 h.
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The James Webb Space Telescope: a great technological challenge to advance in the knowledge of the Cosmos
Santiago Arribas Mocoroa
Centro de Astrobiología, CSIC-INTA, Madrid.
Santiago Arribas Mocoroa
Santiago Arribas is a research professor of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) at the Center for Astrobiology, in Madrid. He has also worked in other national and foreign scientific institutions, like the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, the University of Oxford, the European Space Agency, and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), in Baltimore. He has carried out numerous studies in stellar and extragalactic astrophysics, currently focusing his research on the field of galaxy formation and evolution. He has also contributed to the development of astronomical instrumentation for various telescopes.
He has been involved in the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project for more than two decades, and currently coordinates several scientific programs that will be carried out with this telescope. These are intended to study the galaxies and black holes that formed in the early Universe.
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