Adventure Pass Ending in 2025

Due to circumstances outside of our control, the Des Moines Public Library’s Iowa Adventure Pass service will no longer be available in 2025. Any reservation already made for 2025 will be honored, but we encourage anyone with a current reservation to print those passes immediately. Customers can make new reservations for passes that must be used by December 31, 2024. We hope to reintroduce the service at a later time, and we apologize for the inconvenience. 

The James Webb Space Telescope

Program Type:

Educational

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

Event Details

Join the library and Grand View physics professor Grant Knotts to learn about the James Webb Space Telescope! We'll learn about the history and rationale for putting telescopes in space, the study of cosmology, and what questions the James Webb telescope seeks to answer. Then we'll dig into some of the features and instruments on the James Webb telescope that make it such a powerful tool for astronomy, and of course, we'll talk about some of the important images and discoveries we have gathered from the James Webb telescope during its short time in space.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.