What is the newest NASA telescope?
The revolutionary $9 billion infrared telescope, described by NASA as the premiere space-science observatory of the next decade, was carried aloft inside the cargo bay of an Ariane 5 rocket that blasted off at about 7:20 a.m. EST (1220 GMT) from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) launch base in French Guiana.
What is the next telescope after Hubble?
The US$10-billion Webb is the most complicated and expensive space observatory in history, and the successor to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which has studied the Universe since 1990.
What will the Webb telescope do?
The James Webb Space Telescope will rocket into the cosmos and orbit nearly 1 million miles away from Earth. The telescope will spend five to 10 years studying the formation of the universe’s earliest galaxies, how they compare to today’s galaxies, how our solar system developed and if there is life on other planets.
Where will the Webb telescope go?
Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope and thousands of other satellites, Webb won’t orbit Earth. Webb is now journeying to Lagrange point 2, aka L2, which is almost 1 million miles (1.5 million km) behind Earth as viewed from the sun … or about four times the moon’s distance.
When will James Webb Space Telescope launch?
As for the first part of your question — the James Webb space telescope will be launched somewhere in October 2018.
What can the James Webb Space Telescope do?
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) promises revolution for astronomy. Its 18-segment, 6.5-meter mirror and infrared instruments will see the very first stars and galaxies forming in the universe, watch starbirth in nearby stellar nurseries, peer at exoplanet atmospheres, and directly image exoplanets themselves.
How far away will the James Webb telescope be from Earth?
The James Webb Telescope will not be orbiting around the Earth, but the Sun, at a distance of 1.5 million kilometers or 1 million miles from the Earth.
When does the James Webb telescope come out?
Currently, the James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled for launch in March 2021. It was initially supposed to launch in 2018, but NASA delayed the original launch after the practice deployment saw a sun shield panel rip.