TEDxMidAtlantic 2011 - Jane Rigby - Putting Telescopes into Space

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2011 · Science & Technology

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Dr. Jane Rigby is an Astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. She serves as Deputy Operations Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope. As a user of the Hubble, Spitzer, Chandra, and Herschel space observatories, and the Keck and Magellan observatories on Earth, her research focuses on two subjects: black holes in the centers of galaxies, and galaxies that rapidly forming new stars.

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