The James Webb telescope is also being built with the capability of studying the atmospheric compositions of planets in the nearby future while finding new ones. The James Webb telescope is scheduled to be launched in 2021; it will be the largest, most powerful and complex space telescope ever designed and launched into space.
The James Webb telescope's mirror is made eighteen segments of beryllium coated with gold, combined it will be able to resolve optical resolutions of .1 arc seconds. It's wavelength coverage ranges from 0.6 - 28.5 microns. The telescope is designed to orbit earth at roughly 150,000 million kilometers and is designed to endure temperatures under 50k or -370 degrees Fahrenheit.
The James Webb Telescope main mission goals are to search for the first galaxies and luminous objects created just after the big bang, study how galaxies evolve into their formation at present, observe stars that are in the process of forming planets. The James Webb Telescope will also be able to measure the physical and chemical properties of planetary systems; including our own solar system and also to investigate for the footprints of life. Webb will be able to use spectral analysis to detect nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, sulfur, hydrogen and methane that are linked to the support life as we know it.
The James Webb Telescope will be equipped with a Near Infrared Camera ( NIR Cam ), a Near Infrared Spectrograph ( NIR Spec ), Mid Infrared Instrument
( MIRI ), Lightweight Optics, Deployable Sunshield, Foldable Segmented Mirror, Improved Detectors and Sensors, Cryogenic Actuators and Mirror Control and Micro Shutters. Webb will be undoubtable the most powerful and complex space telescope ever launched into space from earth, it will forever change our understating of the the universe.
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