About (Blog)

I’m a non-expert. I’ve dabbled here and there in online NASA and astronomy fandom since the early aughts. Building websites, blogs, forums… as a means of taking notes and as additional motivation to dig into topics a bit deeper. This blog is my jumping in again in anticipation of the James Webb Space Telescope’s launch, first light and (hopefully) long service.

 Image Credit: NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham

It’s my belief that scientific discovery will be the impetus behind humanity meaningfully expanding their presence beyond earth. To that end we should invest in the tools to make those discoveries possible--unmanned missions and space based observatories.

An example of this phenomenon of the undiscovered being leaps and bounds beyond our imagination is how even in its infancy, exoplanetology has revealed fantastic worlds and planetary systems far more bizarre, complex and extraordinary than even the most fanciful science fiction writers dared envisage.

We can begin to imagine the amazing discoveries the JWST will bring us. But it is the stuff the JWST will reveal to us that we never would have imagined that is the real prize. I’m here for both.