NASA Budget Bill Would Cancel Webb Telescope

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NASA Budget Bill Would Cancel Webb Telescope

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The Chandra X-Ray Observatory (1999) and Spitzer Space Telescope (2003) may be more sophisticated.

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What We Could Lose if the James Webb Telescope Is Killed

NASA's James Webb telescope, the successor to the Hubble, is on the chopping block. With the U.S. Congress arguing over fiscal matters, one of the things that may get cut is NASA's budget, with the expensive James Webb telescope potentially getting the ax. If that happens, a generation of scientific discoveries about the nature of the universe may need to be put on hold ...

Once it's in place, though, the Webb is quite literally expected to unlock a universe of discoveries. Positioned so far from the Earth and shielded from outside infrared interference, the telescope will be able to see things the Hubble never could. Chief among them: seeing back in time. Since light only travels so fast, the further you look out, the further you look back. The Webb is expected to be able to peer into some of the universe's earliest moments, before even stars existed. This could give insight into how the cosmos came into being ...

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I'm very aware what we are loosing by the lack of interest in cosmology (I don't think budget is a good excuse, but I don't want to get in politics) Its about what we are and where is our place in th universe.
Hubble telescope has achieved the brightest images and a new comprehension of what we used to think how was the universe ,but 2.40Mts is not enough , and BTW for me its the biggest and smaller telescope of all the world ,I don't believe the