Today I hosted Sarah Kendrew (STScI) at NYU. She gave the Physics Colloquium, about NASA JWST launch, commissioning, and early science. She has been the lead of a JWST instrument mode for something like 14 years; now she has data! She talked about how JWST works and showed some beautiful exoplanet results. One of the great things about her talk is that she explained a point on which they made some mistakes, and how interactions with the user community helped them to fix those mistakes. It was a great endorsement of the open model for science.
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