According to the Croatian portal tportal.hr, these are the five things to know about the Webb Telescope:
- The James Webb Telescope (JWST), named after the man who led NASA during the 1960s, will take a month to reach its destination in solar orbit about a million and a half kilometers from Earth, about four times the distance from the Moon.
- The telescope is a hundred times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope and is expected to profoundly change the meaning of the universe and man's place in it.
- The telescope will be able to capture space objects we have not been able to see until now - the first stars and galaxies that formed in the early days of space, when it was only about 100 million years old.
- The main telescope, which consists of 18 gold-plated hexagonal beryllium segments, has a much larger area for collecting light.
- In addition to looking for the formation of stars and earlier galaxies, astronomers will be able to are to study supermassive black holes believed to occupy the centers of distant galaxies.