Classroom Aid - James Webb Space Telescope

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Hubble and all the world’s telescopes continued to examine the sky and found a number of fascinating things. Close to home, we’ll see news on Saturn’s rings, storms on Jupiter, and a comet with two tails. A little further out we’ll see updates on the exoplanet Fomalhaut b, Betelgeuse dimming, a moving Bat Shadow, an interesting globular star cluster, and a fly-through the Orion Nebula. We’ll cover Wolf-Rayet stars, a fading planetary nebula, and a look at the age of stars in the Milky Way Central Bulge. Still further out, we’ll see some spectacular nebula around the Large Magellanic Cloud. We’ll see a few distant galaxies, a fading Supernova and an early galaxy as seen through gravitational lensing. We’ll end with a look at the new James Webb Space Telescope due for launch this year and a few of the astronomical areas it will investigate – dust and the first stars.

Music

@02:35 Tchaikovsky: Chanson Triste; from the album Meditation: Classical Relaxation, 2010
@10:13 Dvorák: Serenade For Strings In E, Op.22, B. 52 - 4. Larghetto; Berliner Philharmoniker and Herbert von Karajan; from the album Tchaikovsky / Dvorák: String Serenades, 1982
@17:15 Buffardin: Flute Concerto in G Minor, Andante; from the album Meditation: Classical Relaxation, 2010
@23:49 Haydn; Symphony No. 94 - Surprise, Andante; from the album Meditation: Classical Relaxation, 2010

[davidpearson]

Can't wait for this to go up, need some new videos to fall asleep to

[vegassims]

It will be a miracle if it works at all once launched. Its been 10 years in the making because it is loaded with problems and its ability or inability to unfold after launch.

[Dutchman]

How slim are the chances to fullfill this James Webb spectacle for the Earth peoples, 68 now, not in my lifetime to see something new like this anymore, so please let it shine !!!

[andriesv]

I hope to see this space telescope in space, and ready to be use. :)

[jbtownsend]

Very informative and thorough. Thank you.

[vcuheel]

I’m pretty sure the primary mirror isn’t as big as a tennis court. The sun shield is.

[billyworkman]

Mr. Butler when can we get your review on first images of James Webb?

[jonathanlammie]

if it will be one million miles how will they do repair in case something goes wrong on it like hubble mirror that they have to change i am waiting for a response thanks

[socksincrocks]

No more excuses, get Webb into its orbit. Are we ready to see the truth? Where and why are we...