James Webb Space Telescope

The United States space research agency NASA said that its James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe that has ever been seen.
The JWST is the largest and most powerful telescope ever built.
Calling it “Webb’s First Deep Field”, NASA said the image shows galaxies that were once invisible to us.

To look back around 13.5 billion years to see the first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe.
To compare the faintest, earliest galaxies to today’s grand spirals and understand how galaxies assemble over billions of years.
To see where stars and planetary systems are being born.
To observe the atmospheres of extrasolar planets (beyond our solar system), and perhaps find the building blocks of life elsewhere in the universe. The telescope will also study objects within our own Solar System.

NASA led the development of JWST with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency. It was launched in 2021, and is currently at a point in space known as the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point
- Lagrange points, or L-points, allow for orbits that are much, much farther away (over a million kilometres) and do not orbit Earth directly. These are specific points far out in space where the gravitational fields of Earth and the Sun combine in such a way that spacecraft that orbit them remain stable.
The JWST will be able to see right through and into massive clouds of dust that are opaque to earlier generation visible-light observatories like the Hubble Telescope.
Another difference is that the Webb is equipped with cameras and other instruments sensitive to infrared or “heat” radiation, and the Hubble is not.

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