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| L to R: Rob, Chris, Laura, Nasreen, Mike, Maggie |
On Saturday, June 4th, I (Rob) got to participate in a panel of 6 called NASA’s
James Webb Space Telescope: Storytellers at a HUGE conference in Washington, DC called "AwesomeCon."
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| Rob, Laura, Nasreen |
PANEL SUMMARY:
Hear from the photographers, video producers, writers, web developers, and social
media experts who tell the story of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The Webb telescope is a giant, next generation space telescope currently being built at NASA
Goddard, that was designed to see the earliest stars and galaxies forming after
the Big Bang. It will launch in 2018. For more information about this amazing space telescope, visit: www.jwst.nasa.gov or www.nasa.gov/webb.
(Panelists: Maggie
Masetti (JWST social media/website manager), Mike McClare (JWST video producer),
Chris Gunn (JWST photographer), Nasreen Alkhateeb (JWST video producer), Rob Gutro
(JWST writer), Laura Betz (JWST writer))
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| Rob and Chris |
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| Rob and Maggie |
WHAT IS AWESOMECON?
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| Maggie and Mike |
It's a Science fiction/science fact/ comics book/superhero/fantasy and fiction conference.
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| Chris, Rob, Laura, Nasreen |
ROB'S PART - Since I'm one of the writers (Laura is the other - and pretty amazing), I got to tell the audience how I came up with quirky, memorable headlines, and
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| Chris the photographer (and Rob) |
about my background as a meteorologist and "master of disaster." Of course, there were slides, so one of the slides was a pic of me in my Green Lantern Costume, to make it more relatable to the people there.
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| Mike and Maggie |
SO, What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
The James Webb Space Telescope, previously known as Next
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| NASA's James Webb Space Telescope |
Generation Space Telescope, is a major space observatory under
construction. It is a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror. The
telescope will be launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in
October of 2018.
It will study every phase in the history of our Universe, ranging from
the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the formation of solar
systems capable of supporting life on planets like Earth, to the
evolution of our own Solar System.
