TIME TRAVEL INTO THE FUTURE : Update On The James Webb Space Telescope
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After gazing at the stars with her telescope for over a decade, Alice Gilmore, a space technology enthusiast, conducts an informative analysis of the JWST.
Emotions swell in the hearts of all astronomers as humans take one giant step into the future of astronomy and another into the past Galaxies hundreds of thousands of years after the creation of the universe.
Despite its high costs and early flaws, the Hubble Space Telescope has been an outstanding success, contributing more to astronomers' understanding of the universe than any other telescope or instrument in history.
During its decades in orbit, the versatile telescope has captured high-resolution images of objects billions of light years away, giving astronomers a glimpse into the early universe. It has also captured the most detailed images of the solar system, the most stunning images of star formation and supernovae, and evidence of phenomena such as gamma-ray bursts and dark energy.
The fact that Hubble was able to escape Earth's atmosphere freed the telescope's views from the limitations and interruptions that are inherent in land-based telescopes. Land-based telescopes are larger, less expensive, and require less maintenance. They are also not at risk of colliding with space debris or small meteoric materials that are moving quickly.
Even at 11,000 feet, ground-based installations have historically been subject to atmospheric distortion. The light is blurred when a photograph is taken through the atmosphere, and science has increasingly leaned toward space-based instruments since the 1960s, first attaching them to balloons and sending them aloft to "carry them above Earth's lower atmosphere."
What did we learn from the James Webb Space Telescope?
Planets are revealed
Black voids
In the Distance, Galaxies
Possibilities of other life forms
And much, much more...
Emotions swell in the hearts of all astronomers as humans take one giant step into the future of astronomy and another into the past Galaxies hundreds of thousands of years after the creation of the universe.
Despite its high costs and early flaws, the Hubble Space Telescope has been an outstanding success, contributing more to astronomers' understanding of the universe than any other telescope or instrument in history.
During its decades in orbit, the versatile telescope has captured high-resolution images of objects billions of light years away, giving astronomers a glimpse into the early universe. It has also captured the most detailed images of the solar system, the most stunning images of star formation and supernovae, and evidence of phenomena such as gamma-ray bursts and dark energy.
The fact that Hubble was able to escape Earth's atmosphere freed the telescope's views from the limitations and interruptions that are inherent in land-based telescopes. Land-based telescopes are larger, less expensive, and require less maintenance. They are also not at risk of colliding with space debris or small meteoric materials that are moving quickly.
Even at 11,000 feet, ground-based installations have historically been subject to atmospheric distortion. The light is blurred when a photograph is taken through the atmosphere, and science has increasingly leaned toward space-based instruments since the 1960s, first attaching them to balloons and sending them aloft to "carry them above Earth's lower atmosphere."
What did we learn from the James Webb Space Telescope?
Planets are revealed
Black voids
In the Distance, Galaxies
Possibilities of other life forms
And much, much more...