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Grafik zeigt Spezifikation des James Webb Teleskops und die wisssenschaftlichen Errungenschaften hinter der Mission.
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James Webb Telescope sendet erste Bilder

By Jordi Bou

July 12, 2022 - Nach sechs Monaten Reise, Testen und Kalibrierung der Instrumente werden die ersten Aufnahmen vom NASA's James Webb Teleskop – dem größten bisher gebauten Teleskop – zu sehen sein.

The release of the first full-colour images and spectroscopic data will mark the beginning of the next era in astronomy as Webb will help answer questions about the earliest moments of the universe and allow astronomers to study exoplanets in greater detail than ever before.

James Webb was launched in December to succeed the revolutionary – but now ageing – Hubble Space Telescope.

While Hubble looks mostly in the visual and ultraviolet parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, Webb will look at longer wavelengths in the infrared, to see what the universe looked like around 100 to 250 million years after the Big Bang, when the first stars and galaxies were formed.

Early alignment imagery already demonstrated the unprecedented sharpness of Webb’s infrared view. However, these new images will be the first in full colour and the first to showcase Webb’s full science capabilities.

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PUBLISHED: 23/06/2022; STORY: Graphic News
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