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:

Excited about the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope? John Mather is….and so is Eos! The latest issue of Eos is all about the James Webb- check it out!

You don’t have to wait until grad school to launch a balloon that conducts research, like John Mather did. Check out this Eos article about high school students who accomplished it!

John Mather used a balloon to map the radiation from the Big Bang. More recently, scientists are using balloons to explore Venus: