Will James Webb be able to take pictures of exoplanets?
Will we image objects in our own solar system? Yes! Webb will be able to observe the planets at or beyond the orbit of Mars, satellites, comets, asteroids, and Kuiper belt objects. Many important molecules, ices, and minerals have strong characteristic signatures at the wavelengths Webb can observe.
Why does the Hubble Space Telescope produce better quality pictures?
Why is Hubble able to see so much better than telescopes on Earth? Because it is above the Earth’s atmosphere. The atmosphere disturbs the starlight (a bit like looking through water) and blurs the images. So Hubble’s images are much sharper than those from other telescopes.
Can Hubble look at Earth?
Contrary to popular belief, the Earth ( or the Moon!) is not too bright for Hubble to see. But it hardly matters: Hubble cannot track the Earth underneath it. It orbits too quickly to compensate for that kind of motion, so objects on Earth leave long streaks across an image.
What will be the orbit of the James Webb telescope?
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.
What is the purpose of the James Webb Space Telescope?
James Webb Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is a space telescope that will be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The JWST will provide greatly improved resolution and sensitivity, and will enable a broad range of investigations across the fields of astronomy and cosmology.
What is the size of the Hubble Space Telescope?
The telescope has an expected mass about half of Hubble Space Telescope’s, but its primary mirror (a 6.5 meter diameter gold-coated beryllium reflector) will have a collecting area about five times as large (25 m2 or 270 sq ft vs. 4.5 m2 or 48 sq ft).
What is the difference between Hubble and Webb?
Webb will primarily look at the Universe in the infrared, while Hubble studies it primarily at optical and ultraviolet wavelengths (though it has some infrared capability). Webb also has a much bigger mirror than Hubble. This larger light collecting area means that Webb can peer farther back into time than Hubble is capable of doing.
Will NASA’s JWST see anything like Hubble?
The short answer to this is that JWST will absolutely capture beautiful images of the universe, even if it won’t see exactly what Hubble does. (Spoiler: it will see a lot of things even better.) There are legit scientific reasons for JWST to be an infrared telescope.