A Webb Telescope Tour with Space Telescope Expert Bijan Nemati

Episode 1566 February 23, 2022 00:16:44
A Webb Telescope Tour with Space Telescope Expert Bijan Nemati
Intelligent Design the Future
A Webb Telescope Tour with Space Telescope Expert Bijan Nemati

Feb 23 2022 | 00:16:44

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Show Notes

On today’s ID the Future, physicist Bijan Nemati, an expert in advanced astronomical instruments, discusses the new James Webb space telescope with host Jay Richards. The NASA telescope has been successfully launched into space and has reached its destination, known as the Lagrange Point 2, roughly a million miles from Earth. If all goes well with the extremely delicate multi-phase deployment, the Webb telescope will go online in late spring or early summer 2022 and begin sending back stunning images. In this first of two episodes, Nemati describes the remaining steps in the telescope’s deployment, some of the extraordinary technology involved, and the telescope’s amazing powers, including its ability to see into the far infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, and Read More ›

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