James Webb

Space Telescope
the largest and most powerful space telescope ever launched

what is the jwst? Launch date:

Dec. 25, 2021
The James Webb Space Telescope is an at 7:20 a.m. EST (1220 GMT; 9:20
infrared space observatory that launched from a.m. local time in Kourou),

ESA's launch site at Kourou in French Guiana, on

Cost:
board an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket.
$10 billion
It will probe the cosmos to uncover the history
of the universe from the Big Bang and beyond. Mass:
6,500 kg

Partners:
as off of april of 2022, jwst has
unfolded all its components. now
in its final stages of cooling down
its instruments and refining them.
With photos expected around June
or early July of 2022

near and
6.5m 25m²
mid infared
near infared
approximately 7 cameras spectrograph
2.4m 4.5m² and other
1.7m times brighter primary scientific
than Hubble's instruments
primary mirror
mirror

destination
It took 30 days for the James
Webb Space Telescope to
travel 1.5 million kilometers
to its permanent home: 2nd
secondary
Lagrange point on Jan. 24,
mirror
2022.

control
system
L2 is a spot in space near 5-layer antenna
Earth that lies opposite
sunshield
from the sun; this orbit will guidance
allow the telescope to stay in sensor
line with Earth as it orbits the sun.
aim
to observe near- to to study the to study our own
mid-infared light to birth of our first solar system and
result with infared stars and exoplanet around
based photos galaxies other stars

jwst vs hubble
Webb often gets called the replacement for Hubble, but we prefer to call it a
successor. After all, their jobs are not even identical.

Webb will primarily Hubble studies

look at the Universe in primarily at optical and
infrared. ultraviolet wavelengths