Nasa has high expectations for the James Webb Space Telescope to ‘study every phase in the history of our universe' 🌌🔭
The telescope features a huge gold-plated mirror with a diameter of 6.5 meters that will capture light from some of the faintest objects in the universe.
It also includes a giant sun shield the size of a tennis court, which, along with the mirror, has been folded to fit inside the rocket for launch. Once deployed, both the sun shield and mirror will fully open to allow the Webb telescope to begin its work. The Webb telescope is 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope that’s been beaming back astonishing imagery for three decades
This week, Sarah Kendrew, a scientist who has been working on the project for the last 15 years and is now at the launch site in French Guiana, described Webb as ‘the most technically challenging instrument that we’ve built in astronomy’ in an interview with BBC Radio.The Webb telescope will explore our solar system and the most distant observable galaxies in the universe, giving us a better understanding of the origins of the universe and our place in it.
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