First Science Snippets: The State of the Observatory

Step one for doing science with the James Webb Space Telescope? Make sure its scientific instruments—the cameras and spectrographs that give the observatory its unprecedented power—are all working properly. 

Jane Rigby from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and Macarena Garcia Marin and Karl Gordon from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) recap a few highlights from Session 1 of the First Science Results from JWST conference, held December 12-14, 2022, at STScI in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Watch all of the talks in Session 1, The State of the Observatory 

View the full conference program.

Music: “Coastal Flight” by Markus Huber, courtesy of Soundstripe