Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is now operational and taking breathtaking images of the cosmos. But did you know that Canada played a central role in creating two of its key scientific instruments?
The Canadian Space Agency and multiple Canadian universities were essential to the design and construction of two crucial instruments: the Fine Guidance System, a device onboard the JWST that allows it to find and track celestial objects of interest, and the Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph, a camera that captures infrared light and helps analyze the atmospheres of distant exoplanets.
Learn more about incorporating the topics of exoplanets and telescopes into your classroom with a pair of free Perimeter Institute educational resources: