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More Than Meets the Eye: Exploring the Universe Beyond Visible Light
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Visible Light Astronomy
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Tycho Brahe 1546-1601
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Galileo 1609 – First use of telescope for astronomy
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Galileo 1610 Siderius Nuncius
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Bends at each interface!
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Yerkes 40 inch 1895 60 feet long
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Isaac Newton 1668 reflecting telescope
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Herschel 7 foot 1780s 6.2 inch mirror
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Leviathan 1845 72 inch mirror 54 feet long
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Mount Palomar 1948 200 inch mirror
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Telescope Qualities Resolution – See small things Light Gathering – See faint things
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GroundHubble (with flaw) Resolution
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GroundHubble (with flaw) Resolution
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Light Gathering 1 minute
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Light Gathering 5 minutes
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Light Gathering 30 minutes
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Light Gathering 45 minutes
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The Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Demo 1 A New Way to View Things
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Automotive Repair and Maintenance
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Medical Thermography
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Veterinarian
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Home Energy Audit
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Energy Audits – Safety and Maintenance
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Electrical Substation – Predictive Maintenance
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Fire Detection + Hot Spots
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What is this?
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A Cold-Blooded Snake
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Astronomy Across the Spectrum
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The Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Hubble Space Telescope Spitzer Space Telescope Chandra X-ray Observatory
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Chandra Hubble Spitzer Compton
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100 μm10 μm 1 μm HST Spitzer JWST HUBBLE SPITZER JWST Wavelength Coverage
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Demo 2 Hot and Cold
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Hot & Cold is Relative Ice32 F0 C273 K Boiling Water212 F100 C373 K
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Hot & Cold is Relative Ice32 F0 C273 K Boiling Water212 F100 C373 K Yellow Star (Sun)6000 K
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Hot & Cold is Relative Ice32 F0 C273 K Boiling Water212 F100 C373 K Red Star3000 K Yellow Star (Sun)6000 K
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Hot & Cold is Relative Ice32 F0 C273 K Boiling Water212 F100 C373 K Red Star3000 K Yellow Star (Sun)6000 K Blue Star50,000 K
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Hot & Cold is Relative Ice32 F0 C273 K Boiling Water212 F100 C373 K Red Star3000 K Yellow Star (Sun)6000 K Blue Star50,000 K Intra-cluster Gas1,000,000 K
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Hot & Cold is Relative Interstellar Gas100 K Ice32 F0 C273 K Boiling Water212 F100 C373 K Red Star3000 K Yellow Star (Sun)6000 K Blue Star50,000 K Intra-cluster Gas1,000,000 K
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Hot & Cold is Relative Star-forming Cloud10 K Interstellar Gas100 K Ice32 F0 C273 K Boiling Water212 F100 C373 K Red Star3000 K Yellow Star (Sun)6000 K Blue Star50,000 K Intra-cluster Gas1,000,000 K
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JWST Science 1
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L2 JWST Orbits the 2 nd Lagrange Point (L2) 1.5 million km 384,000km EarthMoon
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First Light (After the Big Bang) Assembly of Galaxies Birth of Stars and Protoplanetary Systems Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life “ Webb ’ s true value will be known only after it reaches its place among the stars ” JWST Science Goals
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Demo 3 Looking Into the Darkness
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What is this? Infrared Camera
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What is this? Ice on a plate in visible light
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Ice on a plate in infrared light
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Cold or hot?
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Is the blow dryer on or off?
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Floor in the visible
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Floor in Infrared
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What is underneath the bag?
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JWST Science 2
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Mystic mountain
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