NRAO/Socorro Colloquium Series
Jennifer Wiseman
NASA
Servicing Mission 4 and the Extraordinary Science of the Hubble Space Telescope
Just three years ago, NASA astronauts performed a challenging and flawless final Space Shuttle servicing mission to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. With science instruments repaired on board and two new ones installed, the observatory is more powerful now than ever before in its 22-year mission. I will show the dramatic highlights of the servicing mission and present highlights of recent scientific results from the refurbished telescope. Its high sensitivity and multi-wavelength capabilities are revealing the highest redshift galaxies ever seen, as well as details of the cosmic web of intergalactic medium, large scale structure formation, solar system bodies, and stellar evolution. Enlightening studies of dark matter, dark energy, and exoplanet atmospheres add to the profound contributions to astrophysics that are being made with Hubble, setting a critical stage for complementary science with other current and future observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope.
September 21, 2012
11:00 am
Array Operations Center Auditorium
All NRAO employees are invited to attend via video, available in Charlottesville Room 230, Green Bank Room 137 and Tucson N525.
Local Host: Debra Shepherd
