During the last week of November 2020, with the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic raging and finals week underway at the University of Notre Dame,聽, professor of physics, decided to hole up in a cabin and churn out a proposal to do research using the most highly anticipated astronomical tool in a quarter century.
The proposal involved using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study how galactic dust and gas is expelled from the plane of a disk galaxy similar to the Milky Way. If his proposal were to be accepted, he, along with聽聽and other collaborators, would be among the first astrophysicists to use the space-based infrared telescope as an aid to learn how our universe formed.
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