What is so special about James Webb telescope?

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What is so special about James Webb telescope?

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The thing that is so special about the James Webb Telescope is that it can see much deeper into the Universe unlike the Hubble Telescope which means it opens up a new era of cosmology.

James Webb Telescope's sensitivity to much longer wavelengths allows it to peer through dust clouds that would normally obscure stars, planetary systems, and distant galaxies from Hubble's prying eye.

This means the James Webb Telescope is so sensitive it can actually reveal the composition of far-away exoplanets' atmosphere.

James Webb telescope is successful and has launched with success and opened up without any problems.

As of now the James Webb telescope is in operation and is the current successor telescope to the Hubble Telescope.

The next telescope after Hubble Telescope is the new Webb Telescope which is the current successor telescope to the Hubble Telescope.

The newest space telescope is the James Webb Telescope also known as the Webb Telescope.

The Webb Telescope is the current successor to the Hubble Telescope which has been in space for 30 years.

The James Webb telescope is working and was successfully launched.

The James Webb telescope was built by the European Space Agency at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

The James Webb Telescope has 18 mirrors in total.

The 21-foot, 4-inch (6.5-meter) primary mirror – much too big to fit inside a rocket fairing – is made up of 18 hexagonal, beryllium mirror segments.

The James Webb telescope did unfold without any issues after launch and it's now in operation.

The successor to the James Webb Telescope will be the Nancy Grace, Roman, Space Telescope.

The reason James Webb is at L2 is because it allows the satellite's large sun shield to protect the telescope from the light and heat of the Sun and Earth (and Moon).

The telescope James Webb will orbit the sun 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles) away from the Earth at what is called the second Lagrange point or L2.

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The Webb telescope does have cameras.

The James Webb telescope has science cameras like the near Infrared Camera instrument which collects highly detailed infrared images of the universe.

However the Webb Telescope does not have any deployment cameras like the ones Perseverance had on it's landing system.

The James Webb telescope is as far as 1 million miles away and is the largest and most powerful space based telescope that was ever built.

The James Webb telescope is successful.

The James Webb telescope's secondary mirror was then successfully deployed and latched on Jan. 5, 2022.

Then on Jan, 8. 2022, NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope had successfully unfolded the giant primary mirror and is now fully deployed.

After launch the James Webb will be operational 6 months after launch.

As of now the James Webb telescope has been launched and is now in operation.

The James Webb telescope is now ready as it's gone through all the testing and commissioning.

The months-long process of preparing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope for science is now complete.

All of the seventeen ways or 'modes' to operate Webb's scientific instruments have now been checked out, which means that Webb has completed its commissioning activities and is ready to begin full scientific operations.

The James Webb telescope is currently at its observing spot, Lagrange point 2 (L2), nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million km).

The James Webb Telescope is the largest and most powerful space telescope ever launched.

The launch date of the James Webb Telescope was on December 25th 2021 at 6:20 AM CST.

The power of the James Webb Telescope is 2,000 watts and cost 10 billion dollars to build and launch.

The James Webb Space Telescope is a space telescope designed primarily to conduct infrared astronomy.

As the largest optical telescope in space, its high infrared resolution and sensitivity allow it to view objects too early, distant, or faint for the Hubble Space Telescope.

Just over a week after NASA dazzled the world with the first clutch of images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers working with one of the pictures believe they have found the oldest galaxy ever imaged—one dating back 13.5 billion years, or just 300 million years after the Big Bang, report Space.com

James Webb's cameras can look deep into space and far into the past.

Webb telescope has the capacity to look 13.6 billion light years distant—which will be the farthest we've ever seen into space.

The James Webb Space Telescope's first year of observations promises to reveal exoplanet atmospheres and surfaces, infant galaxies, and maybe even the first black holes.

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