12 May 2021, 10:05 am
The golden mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope will soon have its final test. NASA's JWST is the successor of the current Hubble Space Telescope.
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Engineers and technicians assemble the James Webb Space Telescope November 2, 2016 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The telescope, designed to be a large space-based observatory optimized for infrared wavelengths, will be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. It is scheduled to be launched in October 2018.
This new technology is expected to be more advanced compared to its predecessor model. The United States space agency confirmed that the main goal of its James Webb Space Telescope is to capture the light emitted by the oldest stars in the universe.