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Peter John Mather is the life-changing skydiver / Entrepreneur who comes out of drugs and alcohol after trying to kill himself. Peter John Mather's story is incredibly inspiring and speaks volumes about resilience, transformation, and the impact one person can have in the world. It's truly remarkable that despite struggling with substance abuse for over 18 years and facing such a dark period during the COVID-19 pandemic, Peter found the strength to turn his life around. Owning and managing 14 companies is no small feat! It showcases his entrepreneurial spirit, determination, and ability to leverage his experiences to create successful ventures. Peter's mission to inspire others to live fully and believe in the possibility of change is both admirable and powerful. Hello! I'm Peter, and I'm thrilled to connect with you. My life has been a remarkable journey of overcoming adversity, achieving professional success, and passionately pursuing my interests. Overcoming Adversity. For 18 years, I struggled with substance abuse, battling drug and alcohol addiction. My path was filled with immense challenges, including two suicide attempts. These experiences pushed me to the brink, but they also became the catalyst for my profound transformation. Today, I am proud to share that I have been clean and sober for over three years. @https://www.instagram.com/peterjohnmather1984/ https://www.facebook.com/peterjohnmather1984/about https://www.instagram.com/peterjohnmather1984/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-john-mather-661989189/ #SkydivingAdventures#ConquerTheSkies #PeterJohnMatherSkydiving#ExtremeSportsMindset#FeelTheRush#Skydiving #ExtremeSports #LiveOnTheEdge #AdrenalineRush #Freefall #SkydiverLife #BlueSkies #JumpAndSoar #PushYourLimits #FearlessLiving
An episode from East River Baptist Church, a conservative, independent body of King James Bible believers located on the Northeast side of Houston, Texas. East River Baptist Church's (ERBC) mission as an assembly is threefold: - To Exalt the Saviour! Eph. 3:21 - To Edify the Saints! Eph. 4:16 - To Evangelize the Sinners! Lk 24:47 What ERBC believes about the Scriptures: “We believe that the scriptures of both Old and New Testament are verbally inspired of God, that they are the supreme and final authority for faith and practice, and are preserved in the Authorized Version (KJV 1611) of the Bible. 2 Timothy 3:16. Psalm 12:6-7.” What ERBC believes about God: “We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. That God is supreme in His person, absolute in His attributes, glorious in His perfection, and eternal in His being. 1 John 5:7.” What ERBC believes about Jesus: “We believe in the Deity of Jesus Christ. His conception by the Holy Spirit, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His death on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins, His bodily resurrection, His exaltation at God's right hand, and His personal imminent, pre-millennial, and pre-tribulation return. Matthew 1:20. 2 Corinthians 1:21. Ephesians 1:7. Luke 24:6, 39. 1 Timothy 2:5.” What ERBC believes about Holy Spirit: “We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, one with the Father and the Son, the indweller of every believer to enlighten, guide, and enable him in life, testimony, and service, and seal each believer until the day of redemption of the body. John 15:26. John 14:7” What ERBC believes about man: “We believe that God created man in His image and likeness (a triune being: spirit, soul, and body) in a state of innocence's, but through temptation, he willingly transgressed, became dead in trespasses and sins. As a result, his posterity (all men) inherited a corrupt nature, are born in sin, and are under condemnation. Genesis 1:26. Psalm 51:5. Romans 5:12.” A message from ERBC to you: “If you are looking for a church in the Houston Texas area that preaches the Truth from God's Word, reach out to us at any time. We would love to hear from you at (281) 399-3030 or on our website https://ERBCTexas.org/ You may also write to us at: East River Baptist Church P.O. Box 983 New Caney, TX 77357 Our video messages are also available for you at the following locations: YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/eastriverbaptistchurch Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/erbctexas Be sure to Subscribe to our channel and/or Like and Follow ERBC on Facebook so that you will be notified the next time we are live. Have A Blessed Day, East River Baptist Church” The KJV Bible Preaching Churches Podcast is directly supported by Doss Metrics LLC | Ministry Services based out of Cleveland Texas. If you have any questions regarding this podcast, or the churches hosted on the podcast, please reach out to us directly at dossmetrics@gmail.com or write to us at: Doss Metrics | KJV Bible Preaching Churches Podcast 1501 McBride Rd. Cleveland, TX 77328 God Bless #KJV #BaptistChurches #BiblePreaching #KJVPreaching #KingJamesBible #ChurchSermons #ChristianPodcasts #BibilicalTeaching #EastRiverBaptistChurch #RogerHoots
What happens when your life spirals out of control, only to find salvation in the most unexpected of places? Join us for an extraordinary conversation with Peter John Mather, a renowned skydiver and mental health advocate, who transformed his life from battling substance abuse to becoming a national champion. Peter candidly shares how a near-fatal heart attack at just 21 due to a cocaine overdose became the turning point that led him to the exhilarating world of skydiving. Imagine the resilience required to buy a skydiving centre right before the pandemic and still emerge victorious!Our journey doesn't stop there. We explore a pivotal trip to Portugal that brought new perspectives on life's challenges, highlighting the crushing lows that came with the end of a relationship and overwhelming financial struggles. You'll hear about the profound moment when a phone call from a business partner interrupted thoughts of hopelessness, underscoring the life-saving power of reaching out. This episode is filled with raw and emotional anecdotes on how the law of attraction and open communication can pave the way for personal development and mental well-being.Finally, we delve into the intricate balance of masculine and feminine energies and how they shape our emotions and interactions. Peter offers practical advice, like using a voice recorder to process thoughts, and shares the transformative influence of mentors like Tony Robbins. We reflect on the importance of embracing life's purpose and the unique path each of us walks. Whether you're struggling to find your way or seeking inspiration, this episode promises to offer hope, resilience, and the understanding that we all have the potential for profound personal growth.˚
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Did JWST discover dark stars? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore the dark universe and how learning about dark matter could help uncover the mystery of JWST's primordial objects with theoretical physicist Katherine Freese.NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/uncovering-dark-matter-mysteries-with-katherine-freese/Thanks to our Patrons Shara McAlister, Foohawt, Donna Palmieri, Trooj, Leroy Gutierrez, Tricia Livingston, Christina, Chris Ocampo, Eric Stellpflug, and John Potanos for supporting us this week.
In this second episode of a 2-part podcast on inquisitorial proceedings, our expert TAS panel from across the country explains how they bring their own experience and perspective to their work on public inquiries and coroner's inquests. In this episode, you will hear about these lawyers who found themselves practicing in this area and the challenges they have faced working in the spotlight while investigating sensitive issues of the utmost public concern.Ludmila Herbst is a partner at Farris LLP in Vancouver. Ludmila is an experienced litigator and has acted for clients in corporate, commercial, regulatory and public law matters. Ludmila is the current Chair of The Advocates' Society British Columbia Regional Advisory Committee.Gillian Hnatiw is an accomplished litigator whose diverse practice encompasses administrative law, professional regulation and liability, health law, employment disputes, general commercial litigation, and appeals. Gillian is sought after as a speaker and writer, and regularly shares her experience and passion with communities across the country. She is frequently invited to speak at legal conferences and seminars, and regularly contributes to mainstream and industry publications.Michelle Kelly is a partner in the Halifax office of Cox & Palmer and practices in the area of complex commercial litigation and insurance defence. Michelle advises her clients on contract disputes, property litigation, construction litigation, commercial claims, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty claims. Michelle is the current Chair of The Advocates' Society Atlantic Regional Advisory Committee.John Mather is a partner at DMG Advocates in Toronto, practicing commercial and public litigation. He has acted in numerous domestic and international arbitrations, including in New York and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. John is an active member of The Advocates Society's Mid-Career Advocates' Standing Committee (MASC).Land AcknowledgementThe Advocates' Society acknowledges that our offices, located in Toronto, are on the customary and traditional lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinabek, the Huron-Wendat and now home to many First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples. We acknowledge current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit and honour their long history of welcoming many nations to this territory. While The Advocates' Society is based in Toronto, we are a national organization with Directors and members located across Canada in the treaty and traditional territories of many Indigenous Peoples. We encourage our members to reflect upon their relationships with the Indigenous Peoples in these territories, and the history of the land on which they live and work. We acknowledge the devastating impacts of colonization, including the history of residential schools, for many Indigenous peoples, families, and communities and commit to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusiveness in an informed legal profession in Canada and within The Advocates' Society.
Public inquiries and coroner's inquests are many things, but they are not trials. In this first episode of a 2-part podcast, TAS members from across the country share their perspectives on inquests and inquiries, how they function, what they achieve and how to be effective advocates in a non-adversarial process.Ludmila Herbst is a partner at Farris LLP in Vancouver. Ludmila is an experienced litigator and has acted for clients in corporate, commercial, regulatory and public law matters. Ludmila is the current Chair of The Advocates' Society British Columbia Regional Advisory Committee.Gillian Hnatiw is an accomplished litigator whose diverse practice encompasses administrative law, professional regulation and liability, health law, employment disputes, general commercial litigation, and appeals. Gillian is sought after as a speaker and writer, and regularly shares her experience and passion with communities across the country. She is frequently invited to speak at legal conferences and seminars, and regularly contributes to mainstream and industry publications.Michelle Kelly is a partner in the Halifax office of Cox & Palmer and practices in the area of complex commercial litigation and insurance defence. Michelle advises her clients on contract disputes, property litigation, construction litigation, commercial claims, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty claims. Michelle is the current Chair of The Advocates' Society Atlantic Regional Advisory Committee.John Mather is a partner at DMG Advocates in Toronto, practicing commercial and public litigation. He has acted in numerous domestic and international arbitrations, including in New York and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. John is an active member of The Advocates Society's Mid-Career Advocates' Standing Committee (MASC).Land AcknowledgementThe Advocates' Society acknowledges that our offices, located in Toronto, are on the customary and traditional lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinabek, the Huron-Wendat and now home to many First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples. We acknowledge current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit and honour their long history of welcoming many nations to this territory. While The Advocates' Society is based in Toronto, we are a national organization with Directors and members located across Canada in the treaty and traditional territories of many Indigenous Peoples. We encourage our members to reflect upon their relationships with the Indigenous Peoples in these territories, and the history of the land on which they live and work. We acknowledge the devastating impacts of colonization, including the history of residential schools, for many Indigenous peoples, families, and communities and commit to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusiveness in an informed legal profession in Canada and within The Advocates' Society.
Nobel Prize winning Physicist Dr. John Mather discusses the James Webb Telescope, and the Big Bang Theory, also TJ is obsessed with Lume and now the product made for men Mando, all this and more on News Radio KKOBSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In advance of their event at Shakespeare and Company this February 8th, poets Hollie McNish and Michael Pedersen answer our café's Proust Questionnaire. Be warned, this gets saucy quickly…Find out more about their event here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/events/hollie-mcnish-michael-pedersen*Hollie McNish is an award-winning poet, writer and performer.She is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Slug (and other things I've been told to hate) and won the Ted Hughes award for new work in poetry with her poetry and parenting memoir Nobody Told Me. She has two further poetry collections, Plum and Cherry Pie, one modern adaptation of the ancient Greek tragedy Antigone and alongside fellow poet Sabrina Mahfouz, co-wrote Offside, a play relating the history of UK women's football. She loves writing and her live readings are not to be missed.Michael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author, and the current Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh. He's published three acclaimed collections of poetry, with the title poem from his third, The Cat Prince & Other Poems, currently shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prizes. His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 to rave reviews in the UK and North America and was a Sunday Times Critics Choice. Pedersen has won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and John Mather's Trust Rising Star of Literature Award. His work has attracted praise from the likes of Stephen Fry, Kae Tempest, Irvine Welsh, Shirley Manson, Maggie Smith and many more. He also co-founded the prize-winning literary collective Neu! Reekie!.Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. His latest novel, Beasts of England, a sequel of sorts to Animal Farm, is available now. Buy a signed copy here: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/beasts-of-englandListen to Alex Freiman's latest EP, In The Beginning: https://open.spotify.com/album/5iZYPMCUnG7xiCtsFCBlVa?si=h5x3FK1URq6SwH9Kb_SO3w Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The James Webb Space Telescope is a monumental step forward in our pursuit of understanding the Universe and its origins. Here today, to answer the most frequently asked questions about the telescope, is the senior project scientist himself, John Cromwell Mather! John is an astrophysicist and cosmologist of the highest rank. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite COBE along with his colleague George Smoot. Now, he's exploring the early Universe via the JWST. Tune in! Key Takeaways: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:13 James Webb Space Telescope 00:04:16 Why are people so fascinated with space exploration? 00:07:07 Does Webb have the potential to see small rocky planets close to us? 00:09:45 Can Webb rule out or comment on the uniformity of the universe? 00:12:14 Will the TRAPPIST-1 system be viewed by Webb? 00:14:39 Will future projects self-assemble and self-replicate? 00:15:56 Can we look at Europa? 00:20:53 Rapid fire questions 00:24:30 Advice for aspiring students 00:25:24 Outro — Additional resources: ➡️ Learn more about John Mather: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2006/mather/biographical/ ➡️ Follow me on your favorite platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating
What happens when you have a lifelong mindset of curiosity? Nobel-laureate astrophysicist Dr. John Mather is the big scientific brain behind the James Webb deep space telescope, a massive leap forward in humanity's quest to understand the universe and its origins. Dr. Mather sits down with Cirque du Soleil creative guide, Michel Laprise, to discuss how a never-ending quest for knowledge has led to wildly creative collaborations that redefine our understanding of time, space, and what it means to be human. Listen in as these two luminaries explore concepts inspired by the music and themes of KURIOS: Cabinet of Curiosities.JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPEhttps://webb.nasa.gov/
”I don't think it's my job or anybody's job to try to convince other people of the righteousness of my opinion. I think it's each person's job to figure out how they look at the world.” – This conversation with astrophysicist John Mather was recorded in 2014, where he speaks to Adam Smith about space and if we will be going to Mars in the future. Mather also shares good advice to young researchers on how to prioritise projects. The movie 'Gravity' is another topic that comes up - how scientifically accurate is that movie? John Mather was awarded the Nobel Prize on Physics in 2006 for research that looked back at the infancy of the Universe and attempted to gain some understanding of the origin of galaxies and stars. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Kolby and Dawson sit down with 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics and the senior astrophysicist for the James Webb Space Telescope through NASA, Dr. John Mather, to discuss JWST, putting telescopes in orbit around the solar system, the Fermi Paradox, and so much more, here on The Space Between. Check out our website, Patreon, socials, and more!
John Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He was the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his role as Principle Investigator for the Far IR Absolute Spectrophotometer on COBE, which observed the cosmic microwave background and helped support the big bang theory of the origin of the universe. John has also worked on many other projects for NASA, including the James Webb Space Telescope. In this episode, Robinson and John discuss the big bang and the cosmic microwave background before detailing the COBE satellite, its extraordinary findings, and the work that led to winning the Nobel Prize. The Very First Light: https://a.co/d/6iaWMOK OUTLINE 00:00 In This Episode… 00:35 Introduction 02:56 John's Scientific Background 12:50 Where Did the Big Bang Theory Come From 22:28 The Electromagnetic Spectrum 27:48 John's Thesis and the Road to COBE 42:57 Designing the Nobel-Winning COBE Satellite 01:05:38 Some Further Background 01:08:08 The Cosmic Microwave Background and the Nobel Prize 01:35:52 John's More Recent Projects Robinson's Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robinson-erhardt/support
Jorge Fontevecchia entrevista al astrofísico senior del Laboratorio de Cosmología Observacional del Centro de Vuelos Espaciales Goddard de la NASA, Nobel de Física en 2006
From artificial limbs to memory foam, many inventions have emerged from our quest to understand the cosmos. In this episode we explore cosmic history, space's impact on technology, and the enduring human fascination with space exploration. To take us on this journey is astrophysicist John Mather, a Nobel Prize winner for his work on the COBE satellite and a key figure in the James Webb Space Telescope project.Prepare to be intrigued and left with a sense of wonder about the universe's influence on our world. Topics Covered:00:00 – Innovations through the pursuit of space03:52– John's early life 06:44 – Proving The Big Bang Theory 13:30 – The mysteries of quantum mechanics15:10 – Leading the James Webb Telescope17:12 – Images from James Webb20:32 – Are we alone? 24:20 – New telescopes25:18 – Engineering in space for earth29:31 – What would you like to see solved in your lifetime?32:24 – What came before The Big Bang? 25:04 – Misconceptions about space37:17 – Can humans be a multiplanetary species?38:20 - Private vs public spending in space40:24 – What's the future of space exploration? Resources:COBE satellite imagery: https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/cobe_20th.htmlImages from the James Webb Telescope: https://webbtelescope.org/imagesExoplanet transmission spectrum: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/032/01G72VSFW756JW5SXWV1HYMQK4 Stay Updated: Find a16z on Twitter: https://twitter.com/a16zFind a16z on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a16zSubscribe on your favorite podcast app: https://a16z.simplecast.com/Follow our host: https://twitter.com/stephsmithioPlease note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security; and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any a16z fund. a16z and its affiliates may maintain
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Dr. John Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.* He is also the Senior Project Scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be the largest, most powerful and complex space telescope ever built and launched into space. It will fundamentally alter our understanding of the universe. Mather was winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics with George Smoot for their work in the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) mission in the mid 1970s to measure the heat radiation from the Big Bang. Mather and his team measured the cosmic microwave background radiation—basically very faint radio noise astronomers had theorized could only come from the most distant events at the beginning of time as we know it—and their measurements confirmed the Big Bang theory to extraordinary accuracy. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large infrared telescope will be the premier space observatory of the next decade, and Mather has been the Senior Scientist on this project from it's origin in 1995. The James Webb is scheduled to launch in 2021 and 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. We discuss Mather's long career at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, his work on COBE and JWST, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the planning of the Nancy Roman Grace Space Telescope. *This episode was origionally published in February 2021.
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John Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He is also the Senior Project Scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope. His research centers on infrared astronomy and cosmology. He was the chief scientist for the Cosmic Background Explorer and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation. He has served on advisory and working groups for the National Academy of Sciences, NASA, and the National Science Foundation. Some interesting insights from this episode: The James Webb Space Telescope uses infrared technology which allows us to see through the dust clouds to see stars being born. “Maybe the formation of life doesn't require a rare and exotic coincidence but maybe it's something that always happens when given the chance.” Like Neil deGrasse Tyson, John visited the Hayden Planetarium as a kid which ignited his early passion for astronomy. He didn't have his entire career mapped out but rather followed his curiosity and said yes when opportunity would present itself. While society holds the theorists in higher regard than the experimentalists like John, that never deterred him. Stephen Hawking called his discovery of hot and cold spots in the cosmic background radiation “The most significant scientific discovery of this century if not of all time.” COBE took 15 years from inception to launch and the James Webb 27 years but John was able to stay the course on both, keeping himself and his teams motivated along the way. His secret to success isn't being the smartest one in the room and always knowing the answer but rather not being afraid to ask others.
Minter Dialogue with Dr Michael Hauser Dr. Michael Hauser is an Emeritus Astronomer. In his capacity as Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he was instrumental in transforming the Institute into a multi-observatory organization that included the work on the Hubble and James Webb space telescope programs. Michael was a member of the COBE science team and was part of the Nobel prize delegation in Stockholm in 2006 when the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Mather and George Smoot for their discoveries of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation with NASA's COBE satellite. In this conversation, we discuss Mike's career highlights, some of the key discoveries he was part of, the challenges and benefits of international collaborations in light of geopolitics, the value of theory versus observation, the future of space exploration and the nature of ambition in space. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to rate/review the show on RateThisPodcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.
When you come across astonishing images made by James Webb Space Telescope, you are looking at the hard work of a team of geniuses, and we talked with one of the men at the helm - Dr. John C. Mather, JWST senior project scientist and 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate, who was listed among the 100 Most Influential People in the World, probably because he cemented The Big Bang Theory. We started the conversation by asking how Dr. Mather became the scientist he is today and goon to discuss the COBE project, the birth, and implementation of the JWST idea, including setbacks and issues that the project had to overcome, and how Dr. Mather felt about the launching day. We heard his personal opinion on some of the common questions like whether is Oumuamua natural, how tough would it be to settle on Mars, how the search for extraterrestrial life will proceed, and why he is sure we've not made a contact yet. We got an insight into what the next NASA telescope will focus on and learned about merging galaxies, habitable zone, potential signs of life forms, quasars, black holes, and many more.
In this episode, Justin and Maura interview speakers and students who attended the 2022 Society for Physics Students Physics Congress. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell shares the story of her 1967 discovery of radio pulsars and her omission from the Nobel Prize awarded for that discovery. Nobel Laureate, Dr. John Mather explained the importance of learning about the early universe and the potential of the James Webb Space Telescope. Other guests include Dr. Julianne Pollard-Larkin of MD Anderson Cancer Center, a medical physicist who uses physics to study cancer cures; K Renee Horton, former president of the National Society of Black Physicists and airworthiness deputy at NASA; Dr. Sarah Horst, a planetary scientist who models properties of exoplanets and moon and works with educators to make planetary science accessible to students; and former congressman, Rush Holt Jr. who applies skills acquired from his physics training to inform public policy-making. We also hear from students about what they study, their favorite parts of physics, and the joy of being a member of SPS!
The James Webb Space Telescope awed the world on July 12 with its first images and data. And it's just getting started with its exploration of the cosmos. Dr. John Mather, the observatory's senior project scientist, has been working toward this milestone for more than 25 years.
The James Webb Space Telescope awed the world on July 12 with its first images and data. And it's just getting started with its exploration of the cosmos. Dr. John Mather, the observatory's senior project scientist, has been working toward this milestone for more than 25 years.
The James Webb Space Telescope awed the world on July 12 with its first images and data. And it's just getting started with its exploration of the cosmos. Dr. John Mather, the observatory's senior project scientist, has been working toward this milestone for more than 25 years.
In July NASA released the first images and data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Here's my discussion with @Ben Shapiro on this treasure trove of data including: Carina Nebula. The Carina Nebula is one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the sky, located approximately 7,600 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. Nebulae are stellar nurseries where stars form. The Carina Nebula is home to many massive stars, several times larger than the Sun. WASP-96 b (spectrum). WASP-96 b is a giant planet outside our solar system, composed mainly of gas. The planet, located nearly 1,150 light-years from Earth, orbits its star every 3.4 days. It has about half the mass of Jupiter, and its discovery was announced in 2014. Southern Ring Nebula. The Southern Ring, or “Eight-Burst” nebula, is a planetary nebula – an expanding cloud of gas, surrounding a dying star. It is nearly half a light-year in diameter and is located approximately 2,000 light years away from Earth. Stephan's Quintet: About 290 million light-years away, Stephan's Quintet is located in the constellation Pegasus. It is notable for being the first compact galaxy group ever discovered in 1877. Four of the five galaxies within the quintet are locked in a cosmic dance of repeated close encounters. Don't miss my exclusive LIVE Q & A with JWST Project Scientist, and Nobel Prize winner, John Mather! https://youtu.be/vC77uaWYd44 Please join my mailing list to get the latest news in the Universe and win cool prizes like meteorites, books, and more! briankeating.com/list
Images from the James Webb Space Telescope have taken the internet by storm, and Declan is here with two guests who worked on it for a fascinating conversation about its long journey into reality. Dr. John Mather, a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the senior project scientist for the JWST, and Dr. Scott Acton, a physicist at Ball Aerospace and JWST's Wavefront Sensing and Controls scientist, relay their exploits in achieving the most incredible and ambitious space images ever taken of thousands of galaxies, black holes, and dust clouds. And we have to ask: Are we alone in the universe, really? Show Notes:-First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope-Dr. John Mather-TMD: This Is Something That's Going to ‘Change Our Understanding of the Universe'
If you're like us and most of the Internet, you spent last week goggling at the very first, and absolutely stunning, images from the James Webb Space Telescope. These images lead us right into the most profound questions about the cosmos, and our own existence...and they help to put some of our fights, disagreements, and problems here on this pale blue dot (the kinds of things we normally cover on this show) into some proper perspective. To give us that perspective, our guest is Dr. John Mather, Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope. In 2006, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE) which helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe. According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science." In 2007, Mather was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. ***Note: we had low audio quality on Matt's portion of audio, because when a Nobel Prize winner agrees to come on the show to talk about one of the most exciting stories in the world, you make it work even if one of your hosts is traveling and using sub-standard equipment. We apologize for the slightly hollow sound.***
@NASAWebb Senior Project Scientist, and @NobelPrize winner, John Mather answers questions about the JWST from listeners of Into The Impossible.
@NASAWebb Senior Project Scientist, and @NobelPrize winner, John Mather answers questions about the JWST from listeners of Into The Impossible.
Roland Pease talks to two astronomers who began working on the James Webb Space Telescope more than two decades ago and have now seen the first spectacular results of their labours. Marcia Rieke of the University of Arizona and JWST's senior project scientist John Mather discuss the highlights of the first four images. Also in the programme, geologists discover precisely where on the Red Planet the most ancient Martian meteorite came from - we speak to Anthony Lagain whose detective work identified the crater from which the rock was ejected into space. And what causes vast areas of the Indian Ocean to glow with strange light - a rare and mysterious phenomenon known as 'milky seas'? The world is a step closer to understanding this centuries' old maritime enigma thanks to the crew of a yacht sailing south of Java, atmospheric scientist Steven Miller and marine microbiologist Kenneth Nealson. We are running out of ammunition against certain infections, as bacteria increasingly evade the antibiotics we've relied on for nearly a century. Could bacteriophages – viruses that hunt and kill bacteria – be part of the solution? In 2019, CrowdScience travelled to Georgia where bacteriophages, also known as phages, have been used for nearly a hundred years to treat illnesses ranging from a sore throat to cholera. Here we met the scientists who have kept rare phages safe for decades, and are constantly on the look-out for new ones. Phages are fussy eaters: a specific phage will happily chew on one bacteria but ignore another, so hunting down the right one for each infection is vital. Since then, we've lived through a pandemic, the medical landscape has been transformed, and interest in bacteriophages as a treatment option is growing throughout the world. We turn to microbiologist Professor Martha Clokie for updates, including the answer to listener Garry's question: could phages help in the fight against Covid-19?
El James Webb ya está ofreciendo unas primeras imágenes increíbles sobre nuestro universo. En ellas, se observan con más nitidez de la que estábamos acostumbrados varios fenómenos estelares. Galaxias, nebulosas, planetas, nada escapa enorme ojo bañado en oro de este telescopio espacial. "De modo que si hubiera un abejorro, un objeto de un centímetro cuadrado, suspendido a una distancia del telescopio como entre la Tierra y la Luna, seríamos capaces de verlo, tanto por la luz que refleja como por el calor que emite. En realidad no hay abejorros en el espacio, pero sí cosas que no conocemos. Y estoy seguro de que este telescopio nos dará grandes sorpresas". Así lo explicaba en una reciente charla en TED, John Matter, el premio Nobel y líder del equipo de la NASA que ha construido el James Webb.
Roland Pease talks to two astronomers who began working on the James Webb Space Telescope more than two decades ago and have now seen the first spectacular results of their labours. Marcia Rieke of the University of Arizona and JWST's senior project scientist John Mather discuss the highlights of the first four images. Also in the programme, geologists discover precisely where on the Red Planet the most ancient Martian meteorite came from - we speak to Anthony Lagain whose detective work identified the crater from which the rock was ejected into space. And what causes vast areas of the Indian Ocean to glow with strange light - a rare and mysterious phenomenon known as 'milky seas'? The world is a step closer to understanding this centuries' old maritime enigma thanks to the crew of a yacht sailing south of Java, atmospheric scientist Steven Miller and marine microbiologist Kenneth Nealson. Image: The Southern Ring Nebula Credit: NASA/STScI Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker
Watch this on Youtube! Today NASA released the first images and data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Here's my reaction to this treasure trove of light, including: Carina Nebula. The Carina Nebula is one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the sky, located approximately 7,600 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. Nebulae are stellar nurseries where stars form. The Carina Nebula is home to many massive stars, several times larger than the Sun. WASP-96 b (spectrum). WASP-96 b is a giant planet outside our solar system, composed mainly of gas. The planet, located nearly 1,150 light-years from Earth, orbits its star every 3.4 days. It has about half the mass of Jupiter, and its discovery was announced in 2014. Southern Ring Nebula. The Southern Ring, or “Eight-Burst” nebula, is a planetary nebula – an expanding cloud of gas, surrounding a dying star. It is nearly half a light-year in diameter and is located approximately 2,000 light years away from Earth. Stephan's Quintet: About 290 million light-years away, Stephan's Quintet is located in the constellation Pegasus. It is notable for being the first compact galaxy group ever discovered in 1877. Four of the five galaxies within the quintet are locked in a cosmic dance of repeated close encounters. Don't miss my exclusive LIVE Q & A with JWST Project Scientist, and Nobel Prize winner, John Mather! Don't miss John Mather's past appearance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwqTNa9e_LE Please join my mailing list to get the latest news in the Universe and win cool prizes like meteorites, books and more! briankeating.com/list
A sparkling landscape of baby stars. A foamy blue and orange view of a dying star. Five galaxies in a cosmic dance. The splendours of the universe glowed in a new batch of images released from Nasa's powerful new telescope.The unveiling from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope began on Monday at the White House with a sneak peek of the first shot — a jumble of distant galaxies that reached deeper into the cosmos than humanity has ever seen. A star-forming region in the Carina Nebula captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument. Image / Nasa ESA, CSA, STScI via APYesterday's releases showed parts of the universe seen by other telescopes. But Webb's sheer power, distance from Earth and use of the infrared spectrum showed them in a new light."It's the beauty but also the story," Nasa senior Webb scientist John Mather, a Nobel laureate, said after the reveal. "It's the story of where did we come from." An image of the Southern Ring Nebula being displayed at the Nasa press conference. Photo / Marcio Jose Sanchez, APAnd, he said, the more he looked at the images, the more he became convinced that life exists elsewhere in those thousands of stars and hundreds of galaxies.With Webb, scientists hope to glimpse light from the first stars and galaxies that formed 13.7 billion years ago, just 100 million years from the universe-creating Big Bang. The telescope also will scan the atmospheres of alien worlds for possible signs of life."Every image is a new discovery and each will give humanity a view of the humanity that we've never seen before," Nasa administrator Bill Nelson said, rhapsodising over images showing "the formation of stars, devouring black holes".Webb's use of the infrared light spectrum allows the telescope to see through the cosmic dust and see faraway light from the corners of the universe, he said. Galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Image / Nasa, ESA, CSA, STScI via AP"We've really changed the understanding of our universe," said European Space Agency director general Josef Aschbacher.The European and Canadian space agencies joined Nasa in building the telescope, which was launched in December after years of delays and cost overruns. Webb is considered the successor to the highly successful, but ageing Hubble Space Telescope.Shown Tuesday:Southern Ring nebula, which is sometimes called "eight-burst". Images show a dying star with a foamy edge of escaping gas. It's about 2500 light years away. A light-year is 9 trillion kilometres.Carina nebula, one of the bright stellar nurseries in the sky, about 7600 light years away. One view was a stunning landscape of orange cliffs.Stephan's Quintet, five galaxies in a cosmic dance that was discovered 145 years ago in the constellation Pegasus. It includes a black hole that scientists said showed material "swallowed by this sort of cosmic monster". Webb "has just given us a new, unprecedented 290 million-year-old view of what this Quintet is up to", said Cornell University astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger, who wasn't part of the Webb team.A giant planet called Wasp-96b. It's about the size of Saturn and is 1150 light years away. A gas planet, it's not a candidate for life but a key target for astronomers. Instead of an image, the telescope used its infrared detectors to look at the chemical composition of the planet's atmosphere. It showed water vapour in the super-hot planet's atmosphere and even found the chemical spectrum of neon.The images were released at an event at Nasa's Goddard Space Centre that included cheerleaders with pompoms the colour of the telescope's golden mirrors."It moves you. This is so so beautiful," Thomas Zurbuchen, chief of Nasa's science missions, said afterwards. "Nature is beautiful. To me, this is about beauty."The world's...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
John Mather is an astrophysicist at NASA who has been involved in important space missions to probe our fundamental understanding of the Universe for over four decades. He helped lead the design and deployment of the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE), which launched in 1989 to probe the cosmic microwave background radiation from the Big Bang with a precision that could not be obtained from terrestrial experiments because of absorption of radiation by the atmosphere. The experiments on COBE, and its successor missions WMAP and PLANCK, literally have turned cosmology from an art to a science, allowing the precise measurement of cosmological observables that previously were either not measured at all or only measured to within a factor of two. This has led to a golden age of cosmology, where theories of the early universe can now be compared directly to observation. John directed the building of the Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS) on COBE which was able to show that the cosmic microwave background radiation was indeed an almost perfect ‘black body’ spectrum associated with a very well defined temperature of the Universe at a time of about 300,000 years after the big bang. Indeed, no terrestrial experiment has ever produced such an accurate black body spectrum, which was one of the fundamental predictions that helped develop quantum mechanics early in the 20th century. For his work on COBE, John shared the Nobel Prize with George Smoot. But John didn’t rest on his laurels, for several decades after COBE John helped lead the design and development of the James Webb Space Telescope, which recently launched and will probe both the very early universe and also extra solar planets, possibly helping us discover evidence for life elsewhere in the Universe. John and I talked about his origins in science, the science he has accomplished, and what his future plans are in a discussion that will help provide a valuable perspective for anyone on the current status of cosmology and astrophysics, as well as what we might learn in the future. The ad-free video is available for all paid subscribers to Critical Mass in an adjoining post.. Video with ads will be available on the Podcast YouTube Channel, and audio is also available wherever you listen to podcasts. Enjoy! Get full access to Critical Mass at lawrencekrauss.substack.com/subscribe
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Pages 814 - 832 │ Ithaca part III│ Read by Hollie McNish & Michael PedersenHollie McNish is a poet, writer and spoken word artist based between Cambridge and Glasgow. She has published four collections of poetry, and a poetic memoir on politics and new parenthood, Nobody Told Me (2016), which won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry and has been translated into German, French and Spanish. McNish's latest book is a cross-genre collection of poetry, memoir and short stories, Slug, and other things I've been told to hate.Buy Slug here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780349726366/slug-the-sunday-times-bestsellerFollow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/holliepoetryMichael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish writer who has published two acclaimed poetry collections (Polygon Books) with a prose debut, 'Boy Friends', forthcoming with Faber & Faber in Summer 2022. He was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and The John Mather's Trust Rising Star Award, has performed all over the globe, and co-founded the notorious literary collective Neu! Reekie!—who've been launching literary rockets, from Scotland & beyond, for over ten years.Buy Oyster here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9781846973970/oysterFollow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScribePedersenFollow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelpedersenoyster/*Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-companySUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURESAll episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoIn addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit.*Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.comBuy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulyssesFind out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/homeAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.netBuy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpSVisit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ Music production by Adrien Chicot.Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
My guest today is Dr. John Mather, Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Mather received a Nobel Prize for his influential cosmology work, helping to confirm the Big Bang. He's been involved in almost every major astronomy mission in the last few decades, including Hubble, and of course, James Webb. https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/meetTheTeam/people/mather.html
My guest today is Dr. John Mather, Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Mather received a Nobel Prize for his influential cosmology work, helping to confirm the Big Bang. He's been involved in almost every major astronomy mission in the last few decades, including Hubble, and of course, James Webb. https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/meetTheTeam/people/mather.html
Continued from Part 1… Scientists plan to use the telescope to learn about all phases of the universe's history dating back to just after the Big Bang event about 13.8 billion years ago, while also studying exoplanets — planets beyond our solar system — as well as worlds closer to home such as our planetary neighbor Mars and Saturn's moon Titan. Webb mainly will look at the universe in the infrared, while Hubble has examined it since its 1990 launch primarily at optical and ultraviolet wavelengths. Webb has a much bigger light-collecting area, letting it look at greater distances — thus farther back into time — than Hubble. The telescope arrived in French Guiana in October after a 16-day sea journey from California through the Panama Canal to Port de Pariacabo, on French Guiana's Kourou River. After launch, Webb will travel for about a month to a more distant orbit than Hubble, beyond the moon. Its orbit will be 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. Its mission goals include searching for the first galaxies or luminous objects formed after the Big Bang and learning how galaxies evolved from their initial birth to the present day. The goals also include observing the formations of stars and the planets around them. John Mather, Webb senior project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said Webb can peer into the clouds of gas and dust where stars are being born. Until now, the dust in those clouds obscured the view. “That's one of our top goals — to see how stars grow, with their young planets,” Mather said. (Reuters) This article was provided by The Japan Times Alpha.
The JWST's instruments have been turned on. Now begins the months-long preparation for observations that will reveal our universe as never before. 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics laureate John Mather is the senior project scientist for the new telescope. He shares his hope for what's to come and a look back at how this mighty instrument came to be. He and Mat Kaplan also take a deep dive into the origin of the cosmos. Bruce Betts says early risers have a treat waiting for them in the predawn sky. Discover more at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/2022-john-mather-jwst See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The James Webb Space telescope—decades in the making—finally launched from Earth recently and promises to unlock some of the deepest mysteries of the universe. Who better about this milestone in astronomy than astronaut veteran of 5 space flights and former NASA science administrator, John Grunsfeld. Grunsfeld became known as the Hubble Telescope's repair man, logging more than 58 hours in 5 space walks and three repair trips to the Hubble before being the last person to touch it in 2009. We talk about the risks of space flight, and I ask John how he felt flying in the space shuttle after the 2nd total crew loss in the 2003 Columbia accident. "The weakness of the shuttle which we always known is the heat protection. You're enveloped in a 2000 degree plasma. If that thermal protection is compromised then it's a very bad day." Would we solve the environmental crisis that we face if world leaders had the chance to see the earth's fragile bubble from space, the way John has? We talk about how human emotions play a role in scientific research bias and the astonishing speed of technological development of the last 200 years. And finally I ask this NASA insider for the honest truth about UAPs. Note: If you love astronomy you'll also want to listen to my interview of Nobel Laureate and Science Director for the James Webb telescope, John Mather, in Season One.
The moon race is back! Countries — and billionaires — are lining up to take a crack at returning to the moon. But why are we really going? Some say this is a lunar gold rush, that countries want to mine the moon for resources. Others are saying the real reason to go to the moon today is that it'll help us get to Mars. To find out, we talk to engineer Dr. Angel Abbud-Madrid, physicist Prof. Nicolle Zellner, and astronomer Prof. Gregg Hallinan. Check out our transcript here: https://bit.ly/3oC5kMx This episode was produced by Meryl Horn and Ekedi Fausther-Keeys, with help from Wendy Zukerman, Rose Rimler, and Michelle Dang. We're edited by Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Diane Kelly. Mix and sound design by Bumi Hidaka. Music written by Bumi Hidaka, Peter Leonard, Emma Munger and Bobby Lord. Thanks to the researchers we got in touch with for this episode, including Dr. Tom Simko, Professor Jack Burns, Dr. Paul Byrne, Dr. Martin Elvis, Dr. John Mather, Dr. Jennifer Whitten, Dr. Ian Crawford, Dr. Simon J Lock, and Dr. Greg De Temmerman. Special thanks to Chris Suter, Jack Weinstein, the Zukerman family, the Fausther-Keeys family, and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Numbers Knowledge = Success? featuring Julie Craig, CPALet's explore profitability from a different lens by taking a deeper dive into The 5 Essential Keys to ProfitabilityTM that can change your business. It's more than numbers and spreadsheets that can impact the success of your bottom line. As a licensed CPA, I love numbers. Curious what I know from practicing 30 plus years in public accounting? Exclusively focusing on the numbers will not guarantee you arrive at the profitability you seek for your business. Implementing The 5 Essential Keys to ProfitabilityTM, you can carve a much different path to achieve your profitability goal – favorably impacting you both professionally and personally.Upcoming Author, Julie Craig, CPA Answers:We are beginning your 5-part mini-series on our podcast, you are a CPA in Public Accounting who loves to talk about numbers but not in the way you may expect. Would share with us a little bit about yourself and your thoughts on numbers?You once mentioned there's a famous quote by John Mather about the numbers. Can you share it and its importance?Regarding Mather's quote, what do you see as one of the greatest challenges business owners have with numbers?There sure are a series of challenges but as the quote alluded to, there is also strength. Tell us more about your perspective on the strengths and why you chose to write about numbers not in the way most people would think when it comes to profitability? Julie it's been fun talking about numbers—never thought I would say that! As we wrap out our session maybe you can give us a tip of on your first Essential Key you wrote about in your chapter?This is the first episode in Julie's miniseries on our podcast.Links to "Brilliant Breakthroughs for the Small Business Owner"Books:Volume 1: getbook.at/BrilliantBizBook2017Volume 2: getbook.at/BrilliantBizBook2Volume 3: getbook.at/BrilliantBizBook3 Volume 4: getbook.at/BrilliantBizBook4#BrilliantBizBook #SmallBusiness #GJM #CPA
John Mather is a senior astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and a professor of physics at the University of Maryland's College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences. In 2006, he and George Smoot were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.” The work, completed along with their teams, used the COBE satellite to all but confirm the Big Bang theory—and elevated cosmologists, individuals previously derided by “real” physicists as being “always in error, but never in doubt,” into proper practitioners of precision science. Available on Amazon: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner About Professor Brian Keating: https://www.youtube.com/drbriankeating Podcast in iTunes https://simonsobservatory.org/ https://briankeating.com/ https://bkeating.physics.ucsd.edu/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/drbriankeating/
The James Webb Space Telescope, which is the planned successor of the Hubble Space Telescope, is set to launch this October. I don't know about you, but we here at AGU are very excited! We were lucky enough to talk to John Mather, the senior scientist for the James Webb, on our latest Sci & Tell episode. We learned about his journey to becoming a scientist, and he even talked to us a bit about James Webb's capability. But if you think the telescope is the most exciting part of his career, guess again- he previously won a Nobel Prize for mapping the Big Bang. Listen to the episode to learn more about John Mather, the amazing projects he has worked on, and his experiences with sudden fame! This episode was produced by Shane M Hanlon and Nisha Mital, and mixed by Collin Warren. Artwork by Karen Romano Young.
Nobel Prize laureate Dr. John Mather, explains how the early cosmos (whose precise characteristics he helped pin down) became our present-day universe of galaxies, stars, and planets. Dr. Mather is the Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope (which will be a much larger instrument than the Hubble when it is launched in late 2021). He also discusses the history of the Webb telescope and how it is designed, and then suggests some of the exciting things this telescope will be able to do. This was the Feb. 2021 Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture.
Few sights are more relaxing than a field of stars twinkling through a dark night sky — at least for most of us. For astronomers, “twinkling” just makes life harder. It blurs the light of distant stars and galaxies. So instead of a sharp pinpoint of light, a telescope sees a star as a fuzzy blob. Astronomers have developed some techniques to sharpen the view. They use small mirrors that move to compensate for the shifting light coming from a bright star in the telescope's field of view, for example. Such techniques have improved the view dramatically. But they have some drawbacks. So a team of astronomers has proposed a new way to sharpen the view: with lasers aboard small satellites. The team is led by John Mather. He's a Nobel Prize winner, and chief scientist for the next big space telescope. The team proposes launching one or more small, inexpensive satellites. The satellites would follow orbits that could keep them in view of a single telescope for hours — or even permanently. A satellite would beam a laser toward the telescope. An improved set of mirrors would bring that beam to a sharp focus. That would sharpen the telescope's entire field of view. The technique could be especially valuable for a new generation of giant telescopes. The team says the system could be developed fairly quickly and inexpensively — allowing telescopes on the ground to see the universe as clearly as those in space. Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory
John Mather, is a driving force in space astronomy and cosmology. In 1989 he helped discover that the cosmic background radiation's spectrum corresponds to black-body radiation - radiation emitted by a dark, glowing body. The result provided evidence that the background radiation is a remnant from the creation of the universe in the Big Bang. John is the author of The Very First Light: The True Inside Story of the Scientific Journey Back to the Dawn of the Universe. It tells the story of the NASA-led team of scientists from the COBE project that changed the way we view the universe. They showed that the microwave radiation that fills the universe must have come from the Big Bang itself—effectively proving this theory beyond any doubt. It was one of the greatest scientific findings of our generation, perhaps of all time. In this no-holds-barred account, COBE's originator and Project Scientist, John Mather, and science writer John Boslough provide the intimate and startling details of how big science is done today. They tell of the discovery of the cosmic background radiation and of the fifteen-year struggle to design, build and launch the COBE satellite, including the unwelcome controversy when one team member breached the project's publication policy and stepped into the limelight alone. The Very First Light presents a rarely seen inside account of the world of big science, where cooperation and competition battle for supremacy. At the height of the project, more than 1,500 scientists, engineers, designers, and support staff worked on the spacecraft. The project was especially difficult because two of the three instruments were cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero.When the Challenger exploded in 1986, the shuttle program was grounded indefinately, leaving the COBE with no route to space. The last available Delta rocket was approved for the mission, but now the team had to slash the spacecraft's five-ton weight in half. The story of this feat provides a remarkable behind-the-scenes look into the high-stakes, frenetic world of a big science project and NASA itself. The Very First Light is a portrait of science no serious reader will want to miss. Thanks to today’s sponsor, LinkedIn Jobs! Visit linkedin.com/impossible to post your job ad for FREE! Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating And please join my mailing list to get resources and enter giveaways to win a FREE copy of my book (and more) http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php
Much of what we know about the universe, we've learned in the past 25 years. These three astrophysicists, all Nobel laureates, were key to unlocking some of its greatest mysteries, including that the universe is expanding at an ever-faster rate. (For decades, scientists were certain it was slowing down.) Now they are poised to help us learn a whole lot more... starting this year, with the launch of the James Webb telescope. John Mather, Adam Reiss and Saul Perlmutter talk here about what drew them to study the cosmos, and explain in ways we can all understand, what the universe has to teach us.
In light of this weeks' adventurous comments by former Seattle Mariners President and CEO John Mather, and on the 53rd anniversary of its signing, the first collective bargaining agreement takes center stage this week, as Mike and Bill talk about how it came about, what was in it, how much the owners hated it, and how that hatred led to decades of labor strife that we're still feeling the effects of this week and that could threaten the 2022 season. Plus, happy birthday to J.T. Snow and John Titus!
Dr. John Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. He is also the Senior Project Scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be the largest, most powerful and complex space telescope ever built and launched into space. It will fundamentally alter our understanding of the universe. Mather was winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics with George Smoot for their work in the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) mission in the mid 1970s to measure the heat radiation from the Big Bang. Mather and his team measured the cosmic microwave background radiation—basically very faint radio noise astronomers had theorized could only come from the most distant events at the beginning of time as we know it—and their measurements confirmed the Big Bang theory to extraordinary accuracy. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large infrared telescope will be the premier space observatory of the next decade, and Mather has been the Senior Scientist on this project from it's origin in 1995. The James Webb is scheduled to launch in 2021 and 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. We discuss Mather's long career at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, his work on COBE and JWST, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the planning of the Nancy Roman Grace Space Telescope. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SoulOfLifeShow or Twitter: https://twitter.com/SoulofLifeShow Want to book Keith as a guest on your podcast? Contact him at keith@souloflifeshow.com. ***7-Week Stress Reduction & Relationship Growth Course*** If you and your significant other are looking for ways to improve communication and strengthen your partnership, there is still time to enroll in my upcoming live 7-Week Mindfulness and IFS course, called Mindful Marriage. Partners of any kind are welcome. It's a one-of-a-kind offering that can truly transform how you show up in intimacy. For more information visit: https://community.souloflifeshow.com/
Can the secrets of the universe inspire and humble us to bring us together in gratitude? My conversation with Nobel laureate and top NASA scientist Dr. John Mather reminds us of how the Apollo program in the 1960s united a nation's eyes toward the heavens. Mather is the Science Director of the James Webb Space Telescope program at NASA, scheduled to launch in October of this year. He is the only member of this 15-year effort that was present on day one of the project. Listen to this special preview of my full conversation with Dr. Mather, the premiere of Season Two of The Soul of Life, which will be released on February 5th.
The final frontier has long fascinated humanity. Why humans are exploring, how emperor penguins breathe, how the Big Bang happened, and what a year in space feels like, on this installment of Extempore, featuring the 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics and Senior Astrophysicist at NASA Goddard, Dr. John Mather, and Astronaut Jessica Meir, one of two women to partake in the first all-female spacewalk onboard a 204 day ISS stay earlier this year. It's good to be back, even if we aren't covering our home. This episode is brought to you by the Ashley Wilson Piano Studio, offering private, in-person or online piano lessons from beginners to advanced levels. Visit https://www.ashleywilsonpianostudio.com for more information. The views of Dr. Jessica Meir and Dr. John Mather are their own and do not represent those of their employer, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or the United States government. --------------------------------------------- Follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter = @thefinchpodcast Follow us on Spotify = https://sptfy.com/thefinchpodcast Check out our website = https://www.thefinchpodcast.com Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Google Podcasts, Anchor FM, TuneIn, Breaker, Pocket Casts, Overcast, Pod Bay, and Radio Public. New episodes every week! Aired on October 18th, 2020 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-finch-podcast/support
How do different people look at the world around them? Do a scientist and an artist see a sunset the same way? In the first of two programmes, we meet the Nobel prize winning astrophysicist, John Mather. Dr Mather is the Senior Project Scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble. He talks to the journalist Jay Elwes about the "telescope of the imagination", and how technology can help us look back through space and time to picture our universe in its early days. Producer: Chris Ledgard
John Mather of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center explains why and how the James Webb Space Telescope is being built.
KVH Snapshot November, featuring John Mather explaining the wild kiwifruit vine control programme.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine sits down with Nobel Prize winner John Mather and the agency's Associate Administrator for Science, Thomas Zurbuchen for a conversation about NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
There was a time before planets and suns. A time before oxygen. You could say there was time, even, before what we think of as light. Back in 1989, the Big Bang theory was still in question. But that year, a NASA team led by cosmologist John Mather launched a mission to probe the earliest moments of the universe. Mather won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE). This work dramatically confirmed the Big Bang theory — and, as part of it, Mather and his team took a picture of the very first light escaping into our universe. In this episode, Dr. Thaller visits Mather to talk about these discoveries, which transformed scientific understanding of the universe. We also hear about Mather’s current project: an orbiting space telescope twice the size of the Hubble. It promises to capture the first light of galaxies and stars, and even distant planets not unlike our own. Orbital Path is produced by David Schulman and edited by Andrea Mustain. Production oversight by John Barth and Genevieve Sponsler. Hosted by Michelle Thaller. Photo credit: NASA For more, here’s a vintage 1989 video on the COBE project.
John Mather of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center explains why and how the James Webb Space Telescope is being built.
Jasmin Evans is an undergraduate student in astronomy and physics at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. She shadowed us for the week and while she was here, she interviewed Nobel Laureate Dr. John Mather for our podcast. She talked to him about what lead him to science, what advice he would give to those young people currently trying to decide in which direction they should take their careers, and (of course) about JWST.
In July, we featured a guest post on our blog from astronomer Nick Howes about how he was able to image the Herschel observatory, which sat a million miles away from the Earth at the 2nd Lagrange point (and is now being moved into a graveyard orbit). For this podcast, we interviewed him about the back story about how he imaged Herschel, the telescopes he used, and what got him into astronomy.
This is the last part of our interview with Dr. Phil Plait, the so-called "Bad Astronomer." Phil is a scientist who now writes about science for the public, with a large focus on debunking bad science and astronomy. In this podcast, we talk with Phil about how science works, and how we learn.
This is part three of four of our interview with Dr. Phil Plait, the so-called "Bad Astronomer." Phil is a scientist, writer, and specializes in debunking bad science. In part 1, we learned how he got started, and in part 2, we talked about science in entertainment. In part 3, we discuss how he busts misconceptions, and the value of looking up at the sky.
A college friend of Maggie's, Dr. Eric Mamajek, discovered a cool potential exoplanet system that might also have a ring system - we reported on it last January after the American Astronomical Society conference. We checked with Eric a year later to talk more about his discovery, any updates, and the art done of his potential exoplanet system by Ron Miller, who we also recently interviewed in our two-part series about "The Art of Space." Visit our website (http://universe.nasa.gov/blueshift/) to see Ron's visualization of the exoplanet system discussed in this episode.
This is the second episode of our two-part interview with space artist Ron Miller. In this episode, Ron talks specifically about how he illustrates exoplanets, and we discuss specific pieces of his art. To listen to the first part of this interview, and to see examples of Ron's art, visit our website at: http://universe.nasa.gov/blueshift/
Blueshift recently interviewed space artist Ron Miller. Not only is he an amazingly talented illustrator, but he’s also the author, consultant, and former art director for the National Air and Space Museum's Albert Einstein planetarium. He's written and illustrated many books, one of which, "Out of the Cradle," is a classic and a huge inspiration to our generation. We recently came across his art illustrating a news article about an unusual exoplanet system which might actually have a ring system like Saturn's. This led us to Ron and resulted in a two-part podcast all about his extraordinary work. This is part 1. You'll find examples of Ron's art on our website at: http://universe.nasa.gov/blueshift/
Dust - on Earth, it's a nuisance. But in space, it's a valuable natural resource, a raw material essential to the formation of nearly any object imaginable. NASA Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Christina Richey studies interstellar dust grains through laboratory-created analogs, comparing the properties of simulated stardust to data from missions like SOFIA, Spitzer, and Herschel. This hands-on approach gives Christina and other researchers unique insight into the building blocks of stars, planets, and even life. This research complements observational data, computer simulations, and other studies of how objects form and work in space. In this interview, Blueshift spoke to Christina about her research as well as her adventures outside the lab, looking for life in exceptionally hostile environments.
Solving the mystery of blackbody radiation brings on the quantum revolution. Phil Schewe, Emily Edwards, and Steve Rolston discuss this pivotal moment for modern physics. 2006 Nobel Prize laureate John Mather discusses how his work relates to blackbody radiation. (This audio was recorded prior to the announcement of the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics. For information on how blackbody relates to the Nobel Prize, see related links)
As you might imagine, the James Webb Space Telescope is a pretty big deal here at NASA Goddard, because much of it is being assembled here. As a companion to all our tech coverage of Webb, we thought it would be nice to talk about the science it will do and how it is the scientific successor to, rather than the replacement for, the Hubble Space Telescope. We chatted with Dr. Amber Straughn, one of the project scientists on Webb, to learn about what this new observatory will bring to the scientific community. We also talked about Amber’s own research, how she uses Hubble data, and what she hopes to get out of Webb data in the future.
As science educators, encouraging critical thinking and skepticism is something we think is really important. We interviewed the "Bad Astronomer," Dr. Phil Plait, to get his thoughts on the subject. He is a trained scientist who used to work at NASA Goddard... but now he works full-time as a science writer and a public advocate for good science. In Part 1 of our interview with Phil, we learned why he started blogging about hoaxes and misconceptions, about the importance of asking "why," and ended with the start of an intriguing discussion about how the trend today in entertainment is for scientists to actually be the heroes and the good guys. This podcast is Part 2 of our interview (with two more to come), in which Phil shares his experiences with the TV shows The Big Bang Theory and Mythbusters, and tells us why he gets such joy out of teaching people about how great science is.
It's an exciting experience for any space geek to watch a new satellite launch into orbit. Earlier in 2012, we were excited about the launch of NuSTAR, a small explorer X-ray mission collaboratively created by teams at Caltech, NASA, and over a dozen other institutions around the world. NuSTAR advances the international astronomical community's ability to observe some of the hottest, densest, and most energetic objects in the Universe. We were interested to find out more about NASA Goddard's involvement in the mission, so we interviewed post-doc Dr. Dan Wik about his work with the satellite's optics and his interest in observing galaxy clusters with NuSTAR.
A golden age? Nobel prizewinner John Mather believes we are in a golden age of astronomy. The young researchers he meets are not convinced. There are too many unanswered questions, they say. For example, what's causing the accelerated expansion of the Universe observed by the other laureate in this film, Brian Schmidt?
Wouldn't it be exciting to do astronomy in the Amazon, surrounded by the wild plants and animals of the rainforest? In January, visitors to the AstroZone event in Washington, DC, got to do something like that - they met dozens of astronomy professionals at the National Zoo's Amazonia exhibit! AstroZone is a special public event that's offered in conjunction with each meeting of the American Astronomical Society (the major professional organization for astronomers). For one afternoon, astronomers share their passion for the Universe with the local public with hands-on activities, goodies, and other special opportunities. We talked to some of the exhibitors at the event in DC, and we wanted to share their exciting science with you. The next AstroZone event is this weekend in Miami, Florida - if that's your hometown, come check it out at the Miami Dade Main Public Library on May 22nd!
Earlier this summer, Nobel Laureate Dr. John Mather told us that data are beautiful when they have meaning. Astronomical images communicate information about the way the universe works and how we know what we know. But can a pretty picture be just as lovely even if you don't know what it's about? We interviewed Dr. Randall Smith of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a collaborator on the Aesthetics and Astronomy project that is looking into how the public perceives multi-wavelength astronomical imagery. A team of scientists, educators, and psychologists are examining the intersection of science and art in the processing of astronomical data. In this conclusion to our summer series on data, Dr. Smith shares some surprising early results from the project that may change the way we communicate with images.
Welcome to a special episode of Blueshift! As we approach another year of Nobel Prizes, we are releasing our full-length interview with NASA's own Nobel Laureate, John Mather (an edited version appeared in Episode 4). Learn more about cosmology, Dr. Mather's new position at NASA Headquarters, the importance of small missions, and the exciting future of the James Webb Space Telescope.
Dr. John Mather discusses the MBA program within the Tepper community.
Welcome to the July 2007 episode of Blueshift, from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Catch up on the latest astronomy headlines, and listen to our audio scrapbook from the American Astronomical Society meeting in Hawaii. For this episode, we interviewed Dr. John Mather, co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics. Dr. Mather talks about cosmology, NASA missions, winning the Nobel Prize, and his induction into a little-known Swedish student organization. We've also got a new brain teaser - and we're eagerly awaiting your answers at our website!
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