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James Webb Space Telescope
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The James Webb Space Telescope is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy, equipped with high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments to view objects too old, distant, or faint for the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope was launched on December 25, 2021, and arrived at its destination, a solar orbit near the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point, in January 2022. With a primary mirror of 6.5 meters in diameter, made up of 18 hexagonal mirror segments, the telescope has a light-collecting area of about 25 square meters, about six times that of the Hubble Space Telescope, and is designed to observe in the longer-wavelength infrared spectrum.learn more on wikipedia
perspectives
- 1.Natural Disasters
- 2.Aerospace Industry
- 3.US space industry
- 4.Space Race
- 5.Astronomy
- 6.Japanese space industry
- 7.Asteroids
- 8.Extraterrestrial life
countries
organizations
- 1.National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 2.Planetary Defense Coordination Office
- 3.Southwest Research Institute
- 4.Space Telescope Science Institute
- 5.University of Cambridge
- 6.University of Oxford
- 7.European Space Agency
- 8.International Asteroid Warning Network
persons
- 1.Bruce Betts
- 2.Christopher Glein
- 3.Nikku Madhusudhan
- 4.Sara Seager
- 5.Melissa Morris
- 6.Richard Witherspoon