page_title: Amber Straughn
section_title: Scientific career
hierarchical_section_title: Amber Straughn / Scientific career
caption_attribution_description: Fans of 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' know the setup: A guy in a Yankees jacket shows off Hubble images and shouts to the audience that, 'Hubble gotchu!' Monday night's episode showcased footage shot right here at Goddard Space Flight Center. Left to Right: Phil Driggers, Katie Lilly, Milky J “Hubble Gotchu”, Mike Menzel, Amber Straughn, Ray Lundquist. Read more about Milky J's visit here: &lt;a href="http://geeked.gsfc.nasa.gov/?p=2066" rel="nofollow"&gt;geeked.gsfc.nasa.gov/?p=2066&lt;/a&gt; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe. Follow us on &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/NASA_GoddardPix" rel="nofollow"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; Join us on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Greenbelt-MD/NASA-Goddard/395013845897?ref=tsd" rel="nofollow"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Gun
context_page_description: Amber Nicole Straughn is an American astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center where she serves as the Deputy Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, responsible for science communications. Her research focuses on interacting and star-forming galaxies in the context of galaxy assembly.
  She is also the Associate Director of the Astrophysics Science Division.
context_section_description: Straughn is a member of the James Webb Space Telescope project science team at Goddard, where she started as a postdoc in 2008.  She became the Deputy Project Scientist for JWST Science Communications in 2011. As an early user of the newly installed Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope, Straughn demonstrated its capability to measure the distance to and properties of very faint galaxies in the early universe.  She is a Co-Investigator of the CANDELS team, conducting the largest galaxy survey project on Hubble.
  Straughn is known as a passionate science communicator and has spoken at schools, astronomy clubs, museums, and research societies locally in the DC area and nationwide. The University of Arkansas awarded her an Honors Alumna status in 2017 for her scientific and outreach work. Amber is also interacts frequently with the media, having done numerous live television interviews, media features for NASA, and has appeared on TEDx, PBS NOVA, National Geographic, DiscoveryGo, the History Channel, Spike TV, and in the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon's "Hubble Gotchu" segment.
  Straughn become a pilot in 2013, flying a Cessna 182 and is an active yoga practitioner, and teaching weekly yoga classes.
caption: Amber Straughn with Milky J “Hubble Gotchu" of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon visiting Goddard
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