{"id":5941,"date":"2023-08-23T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=5941"},"modified":"2024-07-17T17:30:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T17:30:24","slug":"available-space-podcast-a-look-into-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-with-astronomer-and-star-expert-danny-milisavljevic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2023\/Q3\/available-space-podcast-a-look-into-nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-with-astronomer-and-star-expert-danny-milisavljevic","title":{"rendered":"Available space podcast: A look into NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope with astronomer and star expert Danny Milisavljevic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"purdue-initial-words-wrap\"><p class=\"purdue-initial-words wp-block-paragraph\">WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash;<\/p> \n<p>Astronomer and stellar life cycle expert&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/physics.purdue.edu\/people\/faculty\/dmilisav.php?_ga=2.96179868.1873087851.1692621697-436549247.1689776420\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Milisavljevic<\/a>&nbsp;is an associate professor of physics and astronomy in Purdue University\u2019s College of Science. His work, which has been featured on \u201c60 Minutes\u201d and other national outlets, includes leading an international research team to explore&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/releases\/2023\/Q2\/new-webb-telescope-image-reveals-wonders-beauty-secrets-of-star-structure-and-building-blocks-of-life.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a remnant of a supernova explosion in the Milky Way, Cassiopeia A<\/a>, with NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 45-minute podcast features him talking about the science, the research and the wonder that peering back billions of years and across unthinkable light-years brings. Milisavljevic\u2019s \u201cThis Is Purdue\u201d podcast episode is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/stories.purdue.edu\/podcast\/research-series-danny-milisavljevic\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>&nbsp;and available for media to post, share or include in their content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis was a transformational moment in the history of human civilization,\u201d Milisavljevic said. \u201cWe\u2019re so familiar with our naked eye looking up at the stars at night &#8230; but now with James Webb (Space Telescope) using infrared light, we\u2019re seeing &#8230; billions of galaxies everywhere.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Milisavljevic\u2019s love of space dates back to his days as a crayon-wielding kid writing up an elementary school report on the solar system. Combined with his research in school library encyclopedias, the illustrations he created gave him a sense of being able to touch and understand these far-off planets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stories.purdue.edu\/podcast\/research-series-danny-milisavljevic\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch or listen to Milisavljevic\u2019s \u201cThis Is Purdue\u201d podcast episode here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Media are encouraged to share, post and publish this content.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"note\" class=\"post-content__attribution \">\n    <div class=\"columns\"> \n                    <div class=\"column\"> \n                <p class=\"post-content__source\">\n                    <strong>Media contact:\u00a0<\/strong>Brittany Steff,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:bsteff@purdue.edu\">bsteff@purdue.edu<\/a>                <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash; Astronomer and stellar life cycle expert&nbsp;Danny Milisavljevic&nbsp;is an associate professor of physics and astronomy in Purdue University\u2019s College of Science. His work, which has been featured on \u201c60 Minutes\u201d and other national outlets, includes leading an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"department":[],"source":[29],"purdue_today_topic":[],"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-5941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","source-purdue-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5942,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions\/5942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"purdue_today_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/purdue_today_topic?post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}