After 30 years in operation, the Hubble Telescope began to shut down in June. And NASA’s efforts to restart it failed.
James Webb space telescope “mirrors space”
The James Webb space telescope is a joint project of the American, European and Canadian space agencies. It cost over 10 billion dollars during over 20 years of development and construction.
Telemetry beamed down from the Webb confirmed that the mirrored side panels had been latched and locked in place.
It will be this summer before the observatory captures and sends the first images back to Earth.
The James Webb space telescope is a joint project of the American, European and Canadian space agencies. It cost over 10 billion dollars during over 20 years of development and construction.
The space agency has high expectations that the amazing mirrors will capture events and images that occurred a hundred million years after the Big Bang.
Scientists are hoping that people on Earth will be able to view the first stars that lit up the Universe. Another part of the agenda is to train the telescope’s big “eye” on distant planets’ atmospheres to find out if humans could live there.
