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Topic Description: The James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s latest flagship space observatory, released its first spectacular color images in July 2022. This summer marks two years of the telescope’s science operations. In this presentation, Dr. Kelly Lepo will take a deep dive into some of Webb’s latest discoveries, including how galaxies in the early universe are not quite like what we expected, what glowing dust can tell us about how stars form and die, and how we can observe the atmospheres of planets inside our solar system and around other stars.

Bio: Dr. Kelly Lepo is an Education and Outreach Scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, where she supports outreach efforts for the James Webb Space Telescope. She received a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Toronto. During her time in Canada, she made numerous local and national media appearances to talk about everything from the 2012 Mayan Apocalypse to the Super Blue Blood Moon. She previously served as the Coordinator of the McGill Space Institute, taught physics at Gonzaga University, and helped build the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.