Video: The James Webb Space Telescope and the Future of Deep Space Imagery
Video: The James Webb Space Telescope and the Future of Deep Space Imagery
DL Cade · Jun 08, 2013
Infrared imagery has shown its value in many different respects: from keeping an eye on photosynthesis to lending a new perspective on a decades-long humanitarian disaster. But did you know that the future of outer space imagery also lies in infrared technology?
The James Webb Space Telescope, which is set to launch in 2018, is an infrared telescope that is primed to see much further than even Hubble ever could, piercing into the furthest reaches of our cosmos and answering questions we may not have even thought to ask yet.
A couple of days ago, we shared a mind-blowing look at what has been called “the most important image ever taken”: the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image. But even that image, which saw more than 3,000 galaxies in a place where we thought to find only darkness, has its limits. That’s why NASA is building the James Webb Space Telescope:
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