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Lesson 1 Slides

James Webb Space Telescope

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Experience the Phenomena

Create a Similarities and Difference chart in a notebook or on a piece of paper.

Similarities	Difference

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Experience the Phenomena

Create a Similarities and Difference chart in a notebook or on a piece of paper.

Similarities	Difference

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Experience the Phenomena

Images of Jupiter taken from telescope on Earth	Image of Jupiter taken from the James Webb Space Telescope
Source: Wikimedia Commons	Jupiter from JWST Source: Webb’s Jupiter Images Showcase Auroras, Hazes – James Webb Space Telescope

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Launch Video

Source: The Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope

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Experience the Phenomena

Read the information on the JWST Fact Sheet.

What is something that surprised you?

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Moving a part of the telescope into a mobile clean room.

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Source: NASA's Webb Telescope Wrapped in a Mobile Clean Room

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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Source: File:Legacy Image- The James Webb Space Telescope - 50221542358.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

The telescope being folded.

Source:Webb at Northrop Grumman | Flickr

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully folded and stowed into the same configuration it will have when loaded onto an Ariane 5 rocket for launch next year.

Webb is NASA’s largest and most complex space science telescope ever built. Too big for any rocket available in its fully expanded form, the entire observatory was designed to fold in on itself to achieve a much smaller configuration. Once in space, the observatory will unfold and stretch itself out in a carefully practiced series of steps before beginning to make groundbreaking observations of the cosmos.

“The James Webb Space Telescope achieved another significant milestone with the entire observatory in its launch configuration for the first time, in preparation for environmental testing,” said Bill Ochs, Webb project manager for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “I am very proud of the entire Northrop Grumman and NASA integration and test team. This accomplishment demonstrates the outstanding dedication and diligence of the team in such trying times due to COVID-19.”

Image credit: Northrop Grumman

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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

JWST being packed for shipment to launch site.

Source: Archival Photo: Webb is prepped to depart Northrop Grumman… | Flickr

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JWST Inside Ariane 5 Rocket

Source: The Launch - Webb/NASA

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JWST Inside Ariane 5 Rocket

Source: The Launch - Webb/NASA

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James Webb Space Telescope Deployment Sequence (Nominal)

James Webb Space Telescope

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Create an Initial Model

On Your Own

Use words and/or pictures to add to the model template to explain how heavy objects get off the ground.

What is causing the changes between each of the panels?

Draw and label what you think might be happening that is not visible.

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What questions have we answered on the DQB?

Driving Question Board (DQB)

With Your Class

What questions do we need to answer in order to figure out how heavy objects get off the ground.

Read your questions aloud and post them to the DQB.
Ask other students if they have a related question to post next to your question.
Choose the next student to share their question.