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That Wednesday, NASA expects to launch the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and
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One hundred times more powerful than the 31-year-old Hubble Telescope, Webb can see back in time
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to shield Webb from the sun.
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Like a night vision camera, Webb is designed to see heat in for red light, because that's
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the optics, the mirrors, and the instrument on Webb.
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The sunshield keeps Webb cold and dark.
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Webb may see all the way back to the first 100 million, the baby universe.
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Its namesake is James Webb, head of NASA in the 1960s, who made science a top priority.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has hardly opened its eyes, and the universe is new, more mysterious, more beautiful than humanity's dreams.
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Recently, we got to look at some captivating images as Webb peers back toward the origin of everything.
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This is one of Webb's early deep dives into the cosmos, 250 hours of exposures that expand the imagination.
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Robertson of the University of California Santa Cruz helps lead Webb's most ambitious mission,
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Earlier that year, we were among the last to see Webb in California
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25 years in the making, Webb is named for an early NASA administrator.
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James Webb begins a voyage back to the birth of the universe.
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Webb bloffed on a European rocket into an orbit around the sun a million miles away.
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Matt Mountain leads Webb's operations as president of the Association of Universities for
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There is no empty sky with James Webb.
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Matt Mountain says that Webb is a reminder of how much we do not know.
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Humbling, but with Webb.
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Webb reveals unprecedented detail at the center of these explosions.
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And that's what Webb is most sensitive to for our purposes.
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Infrared light is what Webb is designed to see.
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This is what a Webb infrared picture looks like
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and then the shortest wavelengths that we get from Webb
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the full color images that we see from Webb.
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Webb is already the first to find carbon dioxide
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by the James Webb telescope told us the record for the earliest
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