JawaPos.com – The United States Aeronautics and Space Administration or better known as NASA on Saturday (25/12) successfully launched the James Webb telescope. Later, the universe telescope from NASA will carry out a historic mission, showing the stars that illuminate the universe, including examining the history of the creation of the Earth and its contents.
The James Webb giant space telescope is one of NASA’s longest-running projects, also in international astronomy. The presence of a telescope with an investment value of USD 10 billion or around Rp. 141.8 trillion more can bring a deeper and deeper understanding of the universe through telescope observations.
Speaking of technology, NASA explained, the James Webb telescope itself is a successor to its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope. That said, the new set of technologies behind this telescope is said to be 100 times more powerful than its predecessor, which has been operating for more than 30 years.
With this new telescope, it is hoped that researchers will be able to see the universe in greater detail. With much larger telescopes too, astronomers could make completely new observations of light.
While Hubble observes the universe in mostly visible and ultraviolet light, Webb will scan in infrared light, which can pass through matter more easily.
The James Webb telescope will be in space for two weeks and it will reach its point in the Sun’s orbit one million miles from Earth, about four times as far from the moon. The orbit of the Webb telescope will align with Earth’s, so that the telescope and Earth will orbit the Sun at the same time.
The telescope is named James Webb because it was taken from one of the people who had supervised NASA in the 1960s. The James Webb telescope is believed to be able to glimpse previously invisible parts of the Earth, some 100 million years after the Big Bang. The explosion is thought to have occurred 13.8 billion years ago.
This will allow the Webb Telescope to see the object in greater detail, as well as the faint signs of early galaxies. This device is also equipped with instruments to examine the potential for atmospheres that can support life around exoplanets that have just been documented.
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