In this episode, The First Year of Science with the James Webb Space Telescope, we meet Dr. Tim Hamilton, Professor of Physics and Director of the Clark Planetarium at Shawnee State University. From our campus in Portsmouth, Ohio, Tim works with both the Hubble and the James Webb space telescopes to study what are called “active galaxies”, like quasars. These are galaxies whose central black holes are actively sucking in gas, heating it up, and making it glow so brightly it can outshine the whole rest of the galaxy. Continue reading “The First Year of Science with the James Webb Space Telescope” →

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