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High school students, as scientists, work together to use what they have learned in previous lessons to develop a model that explains how the structure of the JWST’s sunshield helps minimize energy transfer to the infrared instruments and compares the energy transfer in this open system to that of the closed Hubble Space Telescope system. Students use this model to inform their individual explanations of the phenomenon.
This lesson is Lesson 3 of the Energy Transfer in the JWST System Playlist
This playlist was created in collaboration with Northrop Grumman and supported by the Northrop Grumman Foundation.
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