How Does The James Webb Space Telescope Work? - Smarter Every Day 262

Youtube Smarter Every Day ^ | September, 2021 | Destin

[marktwain]

There is no transcript of this video. There is a great interview with Dr. John Mather, who is the senior project scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

The Youtube is very well done in explaining the JWST, what it is designed to do, how it is supposed to work, and how it will be deployed and emplaced over the next month.

[marktwain]

I will include an additional link to the Youtube video below.

[marktwain]

Link to Youtube video

[william clark]

So we now have two space telescopes named Webb and Hubbell. Hmmm.

[pghoilman]

Great video. Thanks!

[KobraKai]

The sad reality is we’re all going to question every ‘discovery’ announced by the politicized NASA and scientific community forever going forward.

[Howie66]

Very interesting and enjoyable video!

Thanks for posting this!

[Joe Brower]

This device is an amazing piece of work. The amount of time, effort, skill, engineering and re-engineering involved in this has been tremendous. I pray this mission is 100% successful -- the risks are great as are the potential rewards. Devices like this, NASA's Mars missions and other work are certainly a tribute to our intellect and tool-building abilities as a species.

It's ironic that science, for all its power and all it has done to better the human condition, still cannot answer the most basic questions of our existence: How did we get here? Where are we going? How long have we got?

Instruments like this can bring us closer to answering these thoughts that have stymied us since our race began.

[FatherofFive]

Bump

[Shady]

You win the Internet today! LOL!

[Theophilus]

Destin Dittos!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Great youtube channel, but my favorite science/engineering guy is Shane on Stuff Made Here.

[Phlap]

Want to know what is happening with Webb? Click here. No spam or bs. Just sayin.