National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is going to launch James Webb Space Telescope that is planned to succeed the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA’s flagship astrophysics mission.
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The JWST will provide improved infrared resolution and sensitivity over Hubble, and will enable a broad range of investigations across the fields of astronomy and cosmology, including observing some of the most distant events and objects in the universe, such as the formation of the first galaxies.
SPHEREx will survey the sky in optical as well as near-infrared light. Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 300 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars in Milky Way. The mission will create a map of the entire sky in 96 different colour bands.
The James Webb Space Telescope (also called JWST or Webb) will be a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror. The telescope will be launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in 2021.
It will study every phase in the history of our Universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to the formation of solar systems capable of supporting life on planets like Earth, to the evolution of our own Solar System.
