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Jan Meeting : New Eyes on the Universe and Black Holes with JWST
January 27, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Our January meeting for paid members is online via Zoom invite. Members please check your emails!
We’re very happy to have Dr. Alexandra Tetarenko presenting to us.
NASA Einstein Fellow, Texas Tech University
Presentation
‘ New Eyes on the Universe and Black Holes with JWST’
BRIEF :
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is NASA’s next generation space telescope. This project is one of the most ambitious and complex astronomical space observatories ever built, and its unparalleled capabilities to detect faint infrared light will revolutionize our understanding of the universe. In this talk, I will introduce this incredible new telescope, exploring its history, as well as describing how it gathers data and why it needs to be in space. Additionally, I will highlight some of the amazing science this telescope will deliver, focussing on how JWST will allow us to dissect and understand some of the most enigmatic objects in the universe, black holes!
BIO :
Dr. Alex Tetarenko was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She received her BSc in Astrophysics from the University of Calgary, and she pursued graduate school at the University of Alberta, obtaining her MSc in 2014 and her PhD in 2018. Following her PhD studies, Alex took up an independent Fellowship at the Maunakea Observatories in Hawaii, working at the East Asian Observatory’s James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. Alex has recently started a NASA Einstein Fellowship at Texas Tech University, where she is focused on studying stellar-mass black hole systems in our Galaxy.