RADFORD, Va. – A celebration out of this world.
It has been one year since the James Webb Space Telescope began capturing stunning images of the universe.
To mark the first anniversary today, NASA released a new image showing the birth of a star 390 light-years away.
Radford University is also celebrating the milestone with a day-long event that showcased incredible images captured in its first year.
School leaders say they hope events like these inspire future generations.
“This is the kind of thing that a kid will get a spark whenever they’re 8 years old and they go ‘I want to do that professionally,’ and that kid may be the one who discovers something, invents something, or creates something that basically saves our collective bacon,” RU Physics Professor Rhett Herman said.
The event also included tables of different science themes including a glass-blowing demonstration, hands-on biology demonstrations, and other fields of science.
As we’ve reported, Danville native Gregory Robinson is the director of the telescope program. We’re told he has worked at NASA for over three decades.