article_snippet: Dr John Mather is an astrophysicist at the Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, and the senior project scientist on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
article_snippet: the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be used to find the first bright objects that formed in the universe, figure out how galaxies evolved and find out how stars formed.
article_snippet: But perhaps most excitingly, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will study Earth-like worlds beyond our solar system. '
article_snippet: Bebo used a radio telescope in Ukraine to send a powerful focused beam of information - 500 messages from the public in the form of radio waves - to Gliese 581.
article_snippet: And the Australian science minister at the time organised 20,000 users of Twitter to send messages towards the distant solar system in the wake of the discoveries.