Title: Cosmic Wonders with the James Webb Space Telescope

Summary

The James Webb Space Telescope, launched in December 2021, has been blowing our minds with beautiful images and incredible discoveries for over 3 years already! Thanks to Webb, we now have the capacity to see farther than ever in our Universe, peer through the cosmic dust sprinkled throughout galaxies, and discover and study new alien worlds. Find out all about how this amazing space telescope, a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, is unveiling cosmic wonders using infrared light.

Biography

Nathalie Nguyen-Quoc Ouellette is an astrophysicist, science communicator and lifetime lover of all things space! She obtained her Ph.D. in Physics & Astronomy at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario in 2016. Her research focuses on galaxy formation and evolution, particularly those found in clusters. Nathalie is currently the Deputy Director of the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) and the Mont-Mégantic Observatory (OMM) at the University of Montréal and is also the Outreach Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope in Canada collaborating with the Canadian Space Agency. She is a frequent contributor and analyst in Canadian media on everything related to space. She also organizes and participates in science outreach events from local to international scales to encourage the interest and participation of youth and the general public in space science and to increase scientific literacy in Canada.

The 2nd presentation will be by members Debbie and Doug Narver about their recent trip to Yukon to view the Northern lights – ‘Yukon Northern lights’