James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. It is the largest telescope in space, and is equipped with high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments, allowing it to view objects too old, distant, or faint for the Hubble Space Telescope. This enables investigations across many fields of astronomy and cosmology, such as observation of the first stars and the formation of the first galaxies, and detailed atmospheric characterization of potentially habitable exoplanets. Despite Webb's mirror diameter being 2.7 times larger than that of the Hubble Space Telescope, it produces images of comparable resolution because it observes in the infrared spectrum, which has longer wavelengths than the Hubble's visible spectrum. The longer the wavelength the telescope is designed to observe, the larger the information-gathering surface required to achieve the desired resolution.

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• Entity:  Spaceflight

• Wikidata description:  Nasa/Esa/Csa Space Infrared Telescope Launched In 2021
• Wikidata label:  James Webb Space Telescope
• Wikidata aliases:  James Webb Space Telescope, Webb Space Telescope, Webb Telescope

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