Hubble Space Telescope Public Lecture Series
at the
Space Telescope Science Institute


Speaker: Knox Long, Space Telescope Science Institute

Topic: A Worthy Successor to Hubble - The James Webb Space Telescope

Date: May 1, 2007

Time: 8 PM

Place: Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Auditorium

Price: Free admission and free parking

Phone: 410-338-4700

Internet: http://hubblesite.org/about_us/public-talks.shtml


Extraordinary discoveries have been made with Hubble Space
Telescope. Yet many fundamental questions about the universe
remain. We are still searching to see the first stars, to
identify how galaxies assemble their glorious spiral and
elliptical structures, and to understand more fully the
processes that give birth to stars and planets. As a
result, NASA is currently building the James Webb Space
Telescope - a new, larger space observatory that will launch
in 2013. Webb will attack these and other major
astrophysical problems from a vantage point beyond the Moon.
Like Hubble, Webb will be operated by STScI for NASA. In
this talk, Dr. Long will describe some of the original
motivation for building a new telescope, what the
capabilities of the telescope will be, some of the
challenges being overcome in building this very different
telescope, and why it will truly be a worthy successor to
Hubble.


Lectures on a diverse selection of cosmic topics are held
the first Tuesday of every month at 8 PM in the STScI
Auditorium, located at 3700 San Martin Drive on the Homewood
campus of Johns Hopkins University. Admission is free and free
parking is available in the lot across the street.

This lecture will be webcast live. The recorded webcast will
also be available for viewing online the following day. To
view the webcast, you may need to download and install
software. See the web site listed below in advance for
details.

Further information and directions are available by
calling 410-338-4700 or on the internet at:

http://hubblesite.org/about_us/public-talks.shtml


NEXT MONTH: June 5, 2007
Eva Villaver, Space Telescope Science Institute
Stellar Evolution and the Fate of the Solar System