Over 20 years ago, the instrument teams for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) outlined comprehensive science programs to answer to key questions concerning the origins of stars and planets, with implications as well for the origin of life.
Online Seminar with Tilman Spohn (DLR, Berlin, Germany)
ISSI’s Game Changers online seminar series was launched during the first Covid-19-related lockdown in summer 2020 to help keep the community together. Up until this 100th webinar, the series has covered a wide range of topics, from climate change on Earth to life in the universe and the Big Bang.
The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland, invites applications for a Discipline Scientist in the areas of
1) Exoplanet Sciences
2) Planetary Science and
3) Climate Science
“Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.”
Albertus Magnus (circa 1200–1280)
Are there other worlds in the universe? Does life exist elsewhere in the cosmos? The technology of our time has made it possible to transform this dream of antiquity into a fascinating field of current astrophysics.
