TRIBUNJOGJA.COM – Many people have heard about the existence of extraterrestrials or aliens.
But so far, there is no concrete evidence of their existence.
Efforts to search for and find aliens continue to be carried out by a number of parties.
One of them by NASA.
They set up an ambitious mission to find extraterrestrial (alien) life on a planet beyond Earth by building a special telescope.
The newest telescope NASA it is named “Habitable Worlds Observatory”.
The newest telescope NASA this is much more sophisticated than the telescopes owned NASA previously launched.
The Habitable Worlds Observatory is able to detect the planet Goldilocks, a planet that has signs of life.
This is in accordance with the name of this telescope itself, namely the Habitable Worlds Observatory which literally means as quoted from Kompas.com.
“Livable World Observatory”. So, you could say that the special mission of the Habitable Worlds Observatory is to investigate alien life in outer space.
Director of the Astrophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate NASAMark Clampin shares some details about the Habitable Worlds Observatory telescope which is expected to begin development in 2029 and be operational in the early 2040s.
The Habitable Worlds Observatory telescope is planned to be built with a project value of US$11 billion or equivalent to Rp.166.1 trillion.
The project value is 1 billion US dollars more expensive (around Rp. 15 trillion) compared to the James Webb Space Telescope, which just started flying on December 25, 2021, which costs 10 billion US dollars (approximately Rp. 150.9 trillion). ).
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The Habitable Worlds Observatory will be built into an observatory with a 6-meter telescope that will capture light at optical, ultraviolet and near-infrared wavelengths.
