In this ongoing class, we will discuss the latest and greatest findings in observational astronomy from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)! JWST was made by NASA (in collaboration with ESA and CSA) and cost a total of $10,000,000,000! The goal of this class is to understand the discoveries that are being made by JWST, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. No prerequisites are required for this class.   

Due to the nature of covering recent discoveries at the forefront of scientific pursuit, the future topics that this class will cover have not yet been discovered by JWST! All of the images will eventually be discussed.

2024 topics
Week of January 21:  Beta Pictoris & W1935 & W2220 <----- Friday Section
Week of January 28: New CEERS Survey
Week of February 4: PHANGS Galaxies part 1 (NGC 7496 & IC 5332 & NGC 1566) 
Week of February 11: PHANGS Galaxies part 2 (NGC 1433 & NGC 1365 & NGC 5068) 
Week of February 18: PHANGS Galaxies part 3 (NGC 1512 & NGC 1385 & Phantom galaxy)  
Week of February 25: PHANGS Galaxies part 4 (NGC 1300 & NGC 1087 & NGC 2835)
Week of March 3: PHANGS Galaxies part 5 (NGC 4535 & NGC 4321 & NGC 4254) 
No class: March 9-19
Week of March 17: PHANGS Galaxies part 6 (NGC 1672 & NGC 3351 & NGC 3627 & NGC 4303)
Week of March 24: GOODS-North Field survey 
Week of March 31: SN 1987A & NGC 604  
Week of April 7: NGC 5468 Cepheid Variable & Parallel Field to Protostar IRAS 23385 
Week of April 14: M82 & JWST-ER1
Week of April 28: Horsehead Nebula
Week of May 5: I Zwicky 18 & WASP-43 B
Week of May 12: NGC 6440 & 55 Cancri e
Week of May 19: PRIMER ZS7 & WASP-107 b
Week of June 16: Transients in the JADES Survey & GS-Z14
Week of June 23: Serpens Nebula & ISO-CHAI 147 
Week of June 30: NGC 4449 & GRB 221009A 
Week of July 7: L1527 & Crab Nebula
Week of July 14: Pillars of Creation
Week of July 21: Arp 142 & Jewelled Ring 
Week of August 4: SPT0615-JD1 & Epsilon Indi Ab
Week of August 11: M106 & ESO 428-G14
Week of August 18: 16 Psyche Asteroid & Jupiter & Hubble Tension
Week of September 1: CEERS Survey Update 
Week of September 8: NGC 1333 
Week of September 22: Question Mark Galaxy & Digel Cloud 2S  
Week of September 29: Arp 107 & Galaxy GS-NDG-9422 <----- Sunday Section
Week of October 6: Galaxy Cluster PLCK G165.7 & Centaur 29P 
Week of October 13: Westerlund 1 & AF Leporis b 
Week of October 20: Epoch of Reionization mysteries
Week of October 27: NGC 602 & Vega 
Week of November 3:  IC 2163/NGC 2207 Merger & Vega Cont. 
Week of November 10: Charon & Galaxy ADF22.A1
Week of November 17: LID-568 & FRESCO Galaxies <----- Monday Section


The class primarily consists of covering the JWST image(s) and any interesting accompanying data. I encourage students to ask questions! If a class section consists of all new learners, then we will start with the first JWST images and progress sequentially through the observations ("<----- ______ Section" denotes which topics are being taught for each class section this week). If you sign up for a section with all new learners, I will also take requests (prior to the start of class) for where you would like to start in the sequence of JWST images! 

Note: If you want to learn about the JWST observations from 2022 and 2023, check out my other offering: "Greatest Discoveries in Astronomy From the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)!"