Specialists from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have completed the deployment of the components of the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, launched into space at the end of December last year. It is named after James Webb, the second NASA chief who led the agency during the Apollo program (1960s).
The most powerful space telescope is expected to operate for 5-10 years.
Station “James Webb”, which will replace the Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990, will study the early stages of the evolution of the Universe – the composition of the first stars and the evolution of galaxies, as well as search for life on exoplanets. The giant telescope will be able to record the radiation of stars and galaxies that formed about 100-250 million years after the Big Bang – an event that marked the beginning of the expansion of the Universe. Unlike Hubble, which has been on watch for about thirty years, James Webb is capable of detecting not only ordinary, but also infrared radiation, which allows it to “look” billions of years into the past and become an analogue of a time machine.
Source: Rosbalt
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