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What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
The James Webb Space Telescope will be the world’s premier space science observatory and will solve mysteries in our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it.
Which launcher will NASA use to launch James Webb?
The European Space Agency (ESA) has agreed to provide an Ariane 5 launcher and associated launch services to NASA for Webb. The Ariane 5’s record for successful consecutive launches is 80 (as of June 28, 2017 ).
What is the lifetime of Webb’s mission?
Webb’s mission lifetime after launch is designed to be at least 5-1/2 years, and could last longer than 10 years. The lifetime is limited by the amount of fuel used for maintaining the orbit, and by the possibility that Webb’s components will degrade over time in the harsh environment of space.
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What to expect at NASA’s Webb event?
The event will begin with a media briefing at 10 a.m. on the status of Webb’s commissioning as well as overviews of planned science for Webb’s first year of operations and Webb image processing. The agency will livestream audio of the briefing on its website. Participants include:
What can we learn from Webb’s images?
Webb’s images represent a new era of space exploration, as the telescope succeeds the Hubble Space Telescope and provides new images of the cosmos in much greater detail.
Where can I watch James Webb’s full color images explained?
The broadcast, Webb’s First Full-Color Images Explained, will air live on the NASA Science Live website, as well as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. Viewers of this episode can submit questions on social media using the hashtag #UnfoldtheUniverse or by leaving a comment in the chat section of the Facebook or YouTube stream.
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What can we learn about atmospheres from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope?
"The observation, which reveals the presence of specific gas molecules based on tiny decreases in the brightness of precise colors of light, is the most detailed of its kind to date, demonstrating Webb’s unprecedented ability to analyze atmospheres hundreds of light-years away," NASA wrote in a caption alongside the image.
How does the Hubble Space Telescope work?
The $10bn telescope is able to peek inside the atmospheres of exoplanets and observe some of the oldest galaxies in the universe by using a system of lenses, filters, prisms to detect signals in the infrared spectrum, which is invisible to the human eye.
What is NASA’s Webb mission to the Carina Nebula?
Nasa said Webb has five initial cosmic targets for observation, including the Carina nebula, a sort of celestial nursery where stars form. The nebula is around 7,6000 light years away and is home to many enormous stars, several times larger than the sun.
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What can we learn from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope?
NASA is unveiling new photos from the James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday. The first images from the telescope look deep into space as scientists explore stars, galaxies and exoplanets.
