Hubble Telescope Replacement: The James Webb Space ...

Last week we did a story on the Hubble telescope and the upcoming and final servicing mission to fix it up. The James Webb Space Telescope was mentioned, but not many details were given. This video found on the NASA site shows what is new with JWST, why it is better than the Hubble and a bit of what we can expect. The telescope is still being built and it is possible it will be delayed a bit, but JWST is scheduled to fly no earlier than 2013, so we have a bit of time to admire the images from Hubble a bit longer.

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[KalimaShaktide]

I am just curious as to how it will avoid dents made by micro meteorites .

[spacevidcast]

@KalimaShaktide The same way the rest of them do. Hope and some MMOD shielding.

[onekeypianoplayer]

the webb telescope is only 5 times the hubble , that is not good enough,

we need the webb to be 15 times the power of hubble to see far enough to find out what started this ,

why are the goverments not doing this, !!!!!!!! we need to know, what is past the observible universe, this is the solution to knowing to what is beyong the emptyness that envelopes us!!!!!!.

[spacevidcast]

@onekeypianoplayer While most of us agree, money is a key issue. As the saying goes, "No bucks, no Buck Rogers". Also, having the ability (launcher capable of getting several tons of payload 1 million miles from Earth) to upgrade JWST would be helpful too.

[jhof989620]

this is off the hook...no problem with my taxes going up for this stuff.

[spacevidcast]

@jhof989620 Tell your congressman! Please! :D

[Eduardunk]

Thanks for these pleasant 9 min and 56 sec, I love astronomy.

[alexasmithy]

some sweet info here

[msjessypp]

i enjoyed this vid

[aczjbr]

Rio de janeiro. I´m not yankee, but admirer of the space explorations. I ask for like this the all citizens of the it USA that they help to save James Webb of the cuts of budget of his Congress. Hear the video below. Help to save the humanity's eyes. And spread for his/her compatriots.

Save the James Webb Space Telescope/ watch?v=aZGE86qBxCI&feature=re­lated

[spacepatrolman]

@VenousTadpole no they keep saying they found one then they say its a ring of dust that might be a planet someday or its a double star its a lot of hype

[VenousTadpole]

@spacepatrolman Incorrect. Planets have been detected. Plenty of them.

[jack342able]

@suranjangupta22 it will launch in 2013 we are gonna get a new human help and push the distant of what whe can see with our helper observatories and the naked eye

[spacepatrolman]

THE NARRATOR IS FULL OF SHIT WHEN HE SAYS THERE ARE BILLIONS OF PLANETS IN OUR GALAXY NONE HAVE BEEN DETECTED OUTSIDE OUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM

[spacepatrolman]

@KalimaShaktide there are actual pieces of shit floating in outer space the dark matter of the universe that will stop the expansion of the universe and cause it too contract to the point of the original big bang the same pieces of shit that floated into diana nyads mouth when she swam around manhattan

[BigVern771]

I fucking hate religion, without it this would have been up 1000 years ago.