It’s taken 25 years to build, has faced long delays, and cost many billions of dollars more than expected, but the countdown is finally on to launch the James Webb telescope, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.
In just six weeks, a powerful rocket is expected to carry into space the most ambitious space telescope ever built, one promising to revolutionize how we see the universe.
“I find it an amazing journey to see we’re almost there, and I look forward to the realization of our work,” said Begona Vila, a mission instrument systems engineer. James Webb also will be using different eyes to look at the universe than Hubble. Webb uses primarily infrared to image the stars, which will allow for it to gaze deeper into the universe, where distant objects are more “redshifted,” a term referring to how the wavelength of light from objects moving farther away from us is more red. Infrared can also see through large star-forming dust clouds that absorb light on the visible spectrum.
If all goes well, the James Webb will be able to look much further into the universe than the Hubble, able to see the first galaxies that lit up after the Big Bang, and thus deepen our understanding of planets that orbit distant stars.“The contribution by Canada is quite critical,” Martin Bergeron with the Canadian Space Agency told CTV News.
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