Lead scientist Amber Straughn and observatory manager Paul
Geithner answer questions during James Webb Space Telescope
Night at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center on August 26, 2010.
Photo Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Bill Hrybyk
(Click image for full size.) On a small farm in the Middle of
Nowhere, Arkansas, the sky was beautiful at night. Looking up at
all those stars is how I became interested in astronomy as a
child. Later on, Hubble began to release its beautiful images,
which made me start asking those big science questions, such as,
“How are those stars formed? How did we get here? What all is
out there?” Years later, I’m able to study some of these
intriguing questions thanks to my work at NASA. I first got
hands-on experience with Hubble during my graduate studies
several years ago, when I used data from its ultra-deep field as
part of my dissertation work at Arizona State University. Later,
I was able to work with Hubble’s wide-field camera 3, which was
installed during the last servicing m