Profs & Pints Baltimore: The Webb Telescope and NASA's Next Really Big Thing

Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “The Webb Telescope and NASA's Next Really Big Thing,”

with Ori Fox, deputy project scientist for the Roman Space Telescope at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

[Doors open at 5. The talk starts at 6:30. The room is open seating.]

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now a household name, having produced spectacular images of the most distant objects in our universe and revolutionized our understanding of what exists beyond our planet. Yet NASA is already far along in thinking about its next really big telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is expected to launch as early as Fall 2026. With Roman and Webb in the sky at the same time, astrophysics is expected to undergo another revolution.

Learn about the latest developments in both scientific undertakings from Ori Fox, who previously gave an excellent Profs and Pints talk on the Webb telescope,…