The James Webb Space Telescope

JWST will be almost three times the size of Hubble, and has been designed to work best at infrared wavelengths. This will allow it to study the very distant Universe, looking for the first stars and galaxies that ever emerged. Bob Fosbury, Head of European Hubble Collaboration, explains.

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[LeonNLK]

Thumbs up if you reached this through vlogbrothers.

[agill911]

This is so amazing

[polygona9]

Wouldn't it be great if the first image it gets is somebody else's telescope looking at us?

[08CJ09]

@LeonNLK your too cool.

[SoUnDoLe]

@Battery9876 infrared wavelengths. Besides this, the glorious full page photos of the long ancient universe probably make far better press releases than interferometry's images of single stars with fringes through them!

[luvebug21]

IM SO FORTUNATE TO LIVE IN THIS ERA ,IM ONLY 19 AND IM SURE ILL SEE MORE THINGD UNTIL IM 100 IN 2091 HEHE I HOPE WOW THIS IS AWWWESOME:)

[Hannselchen]

like the part where he appears an disappears on the stairs... :D

[Mach210]

They have probably thought of that already

[Battery9876]

Wouldn't it be better to build 2 of those space telescope and connect them in interferometry rather than build 1 space telescope and large ground telescopes like ELT, 30m telescope etc?