![]() 1, 2023 at the Museum of Arts & Sciences in Daytona Beach. A new exhibit titled “Unfolding the Universe: The James Webb Space Telescope” will be on display from May 20-Oct. “Every one of these panels was a deep dive for me in the scientific research of whatever I was trying to explain to the public,” he said. Schreiner helped choose the imagery - all available for free from NASA as it released them - and wrote all of the placards explaining the science behind the exhibit. “We’re trying to go bigger, more impactful, more immersive.” “We get to kind of stretch ourselves a little bit, a little bit more artistic, more creative,” said the museum’s planetarium coordinator Jason Schreiner. Piped-in music sounds like it came right out of NPR’s Echoes show, exuding a calm spirit throughout the exhibit that flows from smaller to larger spaces as the theme goes from planets to stars to the universe. Models show the relative size difference of the two telescopes with a mini astronaut for scale. Since James Webb is the heir to the Hubble Space Telescope, a lot of attention is paid to the difference in the images that both space telescopes have taken, with side-by-side shots of the famous Pillars of Creation, for instance. The exhibit is one of the largest ever for the small museum that has been open since 1955. ![]() The museum’s planetarium coordinator Jason Schreiner showed off details during a media preview on Thursday, May 18, 2023. “You can click and point to it and zoom in on your computer, but to actually stand in front of it and see it full-scale gives you another appreciation for it,” said MOAS curator of science Seth Mayo during a media preview on Thursday. ![]() Those images and more released in the past 10 months, though, get a much grander stage with a new exhibit titled “Unfolding the Universe: The James Webb Space Telescope” open to the public starting Saturday at the Museum of Arts & Sciences in Daytona Beach. DAYTONA BEACH - When NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope’s first images were revealed in July 2022, the details were stunning, even for most people seeing them on just their computer screen or cellphone. ![]()
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