Last week, we spoke to Dr. Begoña Vila, a Spanish astrophysicist and Systems Engineer for the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope at NASA. We discussed the James Webb, what we hope to discover with it, and the Spanish and European contributions to the telescope and NASA as a whole.
*The information presented in this video is as of January 5, 2021*
00:00-00:09 - Introduction
00:13-02:04 - Tell us a little about your career. How did you end up at NASA?
02:04-04:59 - What is new about the James Webb Telescope?
04:59-05:35 - What will this new telescope be able to see and what will it help us understand?
05:35-09:22 - What do we know so far since the launch?
09:22-12:19 - Can you tell us about the contributions of Spanish and European scientists to the James Webb Telescope and NASA as a whole?
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