John Mather is currently preparing for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope later this year. James Webb is super powerful, but can it detect oxygen on other planets?  

John Mather has a pretty cool career trajectory at NASA- he even won a Nobel for it! Fran Bagenal had a cool career at NASA too- listen to Third Pod to see:

Getting funding for a research project is hard- just ask John Mather. Here’s a nifty guide from Eos to help secure the funding you need:

John Mather is senior scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA, set to launch later this year. How powerful is James Webb? Powerful enough to detect minerals from vaporized exoplanets!

John Mather is one of the latest NASA scientist we interviewed on Sci & Tell. Our very first episode was with an awesome NASA scientist too- we talked to Jim Green, who’s the current Chief Scientist:

In 2006, John Mather won the Nobel for mapping the Big Bang. More recently, two physicists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that neutrinos can change from one form to another:

The James Webb Space Telescope is supposedly more powerful than the Hubble. Which is impressive considering the Hubble took pics of the birth of galaxies:

John Mather is currently senior scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope, set to launch later this year. Check out this Eos article about some of the key features of the telescope:

John Mather won the Nobel for mapping the Big Bang, which he did by sending a balloon into the atmosphere to measure Big Bang radiation. Years later, check out how far that research has gone:

John Mather is currently senior scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s biggest project in recent times. Another big project NASA is working on- the PACE mission: