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The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope will take place in December 2021.
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Nationalgeographic.co.id—Naming for space telescope new NASA received protests from many quarters. The new telescope was named James Webb who was an influential figure in the United States space agency during the 1960s to 1970s.
Controversy over the telescope’s name has circulated among professional and amateur astronomers for years. However, its imminent launch has pushed this issue into the public spotlight.
In the coming months, Space Telescope James Webb would find his home in the sun’s orbit, where he would spend years monitoring the cosmos. The launch is actually 14 years behind schedule originally planned.
Space Telescope James Webb will be tasked with searching for light from ancient galaxies, distant exoplanets, and gases that might indicate life on other celestial bodies, according to the report. Gizmodo.
Space telescope new it will be the successor Space Telescope Hubble which is space telescope pioneer NASA. The problem is, the telescope’s scientific potential is overshadowed by the connotations of the character it takes for its name.
James Webb is administrator NASA during the “Lavender Scare,” the era that banned homosexuals from working for US government agencies. More than 1,200 people—mostly astronomers and diehard fans—have signed the urgent petition NASA to rename the telescope.
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), formerly known as the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), is a space observatory optimized for observations in the infrared spectrum and is a successor to the Hubble Telescope and the Spitzer Telescope.
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The petition points to evidence such as the dismissal of NASA employee Clifford Norton, which took place under Webb’s leadership. Norton was arrested for his “gay activities”.
Norton was questioned by the police. In fact, he was also interrogated by NASA about his sexual activities.
NASA fired Norton from his position for “immoral behavior” and for having personality traits that made him “unsuitable for further government work.” While there is no evidence that Webb knew about the incident at the time, according to Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a cosmologist at the University of New Hampshire, it does not absolve Webb of responsibility for the position he held at the time.
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“Either he is a grossly incompetent administrator and doesn’t know that his chief of security is questioning employees at a NASA facility, or he knows exactly what’s going on and he’s, in some ways, the one overseeing the interrogation of someone because he’s gay,” Prescod-Weinstein said. to NPR.
NASA is no stranger to controversial naming choices. They once renamed the asteroid after learning that its real name had Nazi connotations, according to reports Futurism.
In 2020, NASA vowed to stop using racist names for objects in space and announced the agency’s commitment to “examine the use of unofficial terminology for cosmic objects as part of its commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion.”
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In addition to seeing distant stars, galaxies and exoplanets, the James Webb Space Telescope will investigate our Solar System.
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However, this time the name of the space agency’s new telescope is said to have anti-LGBTQ connotations. And this is considered not in accordance with the principles of diversity, equality, and inclusion which is called their commitment.
So far, NASA has not condemned Webb’s actions. “At this time we have found no evidence that warrants a name change to the James Webb Space Telescope,” NASA administrator Bill Nelson told NPR.
So far NASA has no plans to rename the billion-dollar James Webb Space Telescope, despite protests from astronomers, the public, and space agency employees. They also said they had investigated Webb’s past actions and had shared some specifics about the investigation.
James Webb, an influential figure at NASA during the 1960s and 1970s, is credited with participating in the systematic discrimination against gay and lesbian employees during his tenure with the space agency. The controversy has prompted many to ask NASA to rethink the name of the $10 billion telescope, which will launch in December 2021.
“And worst of all, we’re basically just sending this amazing instrument into the sky with a homophobic name on it, that’s my opinion,” Prescod-Weinstein said. Smithsonian Magazine.
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