LDAS Monthly Meeting – First insights into the early universe from JWST

Tonights talk will be given by Dr Emma Curtis Lake from the University of Hertfordshire. 

JWST can peer further back in time than Hubble could see.  The results in the weeks after the first science data was made public were astounding, with galaxy candidates inhabiting the Universe around 200 million years after the Big Bang.  But the power of JWST is not just in the beautiful, sharp imaging.  It is, at its heart a spectroscopic mission.  With spectra we can confirm or reject distant galaxy candidates, assess the elements present in these galaxies, search for the first stars and galaxies to form, and search for black holes across cosmic time!  I will take you on a tour of the most exciting results from the Universe’s early years as revealed by JWST, including discoveries I have had a key role in.  It’s incredible that we get to probe the history of the Universe, and the discoveries are really just beginning for this incredible observatory.

There will be a refreshment break followed by an astronomy news update from Gordon Ewen.

Members £2, non members £3, and this includes refreshments.