... around nearby worlds. Although we have planned extraordinary science, we cannot imagine the universe the James Webb Space Telescope is about to reveal. WST is not ‘Hubble’s Replacement’ but ‘Hubble’s Successor’, designed to build on Hubble’s rich...
The world’s most powerful space telescope and the successor to NASA's famed Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has had its launch date delayed again, this time until approximately May 2020. The ...
... complete thermal vacuum testing for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST); confirming that the soon-to-be-launched observatory is ready for the frigid, airless environment of space. The Webb telescope is set to improve our understanding of the...
... years of delays and a recent communications problem that was discovered at the launch site, the James Webb Space Telescope is the most complex space science observatory ever built. Not only will JWST allow scientists to explore parts of the cosmos...
...,” said professor Volker Bromm, a theorist who has studied the first stars for decades. “The upcoming James Webb Space Telescope [JWST] will reach the time when galaxies first formed. But theory predicts that there was...
... scientists have found a new way to search for oxygen using the much anticipated successor to the Hubble telescope, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) when it is launched next year. JWST will be optimised to look for light in the infrared band...