the telescope in space,
that is now celebrating it's 25the birthday, that has brought us stunning images like the one above, of the Veil Nebula, a small section of a supernova remnant where you can see the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago, or this one below,
the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars
of Creation, well there was a popular song once, it went,
'you ain't seen nothin yet' which could be so true when NASA launches its latest telescope yet,
the James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST or
Webb), it is a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror, the telescope will be launched on an Ariane 5
rocket from French Guiana in October of 2018, from the NASA web site:
'the James Webb Space Telescope is an
orbiting infrared observatory that will complement and extend the discoveries
of the Hubble Space Telescope, with longer wavelength coverage and greatly
improved sensitivity. The longer wavelengths enable JWST to look much closer to
the beginning of time and to hunt for the unobserved formation of the first
galaxies, as well as to look inside dust clouds where stars and planetary
systems are forming today.'
so much excitement ahead for astronomers around the
world.
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