TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – United States space agency NASA launched the James Webb telescope into space to study the formation of the Earth in the galaxy.
Quoted from Reuters on Sunday, the James Webb Space Telescope was launched by a rocket from offshore in Latin America, Saturday, December 25, 2021, coinciding with Christmas Day.
James Webb Telescope will be in space for two weeks, it will reach its point in the Sun’s orbit 1 million miles from Earth, about four times farther than the moon.
The orbit of the Webb telescope will align with Earth’s, so that the telescope and Earth will orbit the Sun at the same time.
Telescope its predecessor, Hubble, orbits Earth from a distance of 340 miles, passing through Earth’s shadow every 90 minutes. The Webb telescope is about 100 times more sensitive than the Hubble.
The telescope is named after James Webb, after one of those who had overseen NASA in the 1960s.
The James Webb telescope has been able to glimpse previously unseen parts of the Earth, some 100 million years after the Big Bang. The explosion is thought to have occurred 13.8 billion years ago.
The Hubble telescope’s vision could reach 400 million years after the Big Bang, the first period shortly after galaxies formed, when new clusters of stars and gas formed.
The Webb telescope was able to see the object in greater detail, as well as faint signs of early galaxies.
This device is also equipped with instruments to examine the potential for atmospheres that can support life around exoplanets that have just been documented.
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