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Presentation: First Results from the Webb Space Telescope

Tuesday, 2/7/2023
4:00 - 5:30
Virtual Library

United States

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Professor of astronomy Alex Filippenko explores the first stunning images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Now at its destination one million miles from Earth, the 21-foot-diameter telescope was launched in December 2021.

Alex Filippenko is a Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at UC, Berkeley.

 

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