Webb Is About to Reveal The Deepest View of The Universe Ever, And We Can't Wait

Bill Nelson, administrator of NASA, said on Wednesday that the agency will reveal the deepest image of our Universe that has ever been taken.

Nelson said during a press briefing at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore that the observatory that was launched in December last year is one million miles from the sun.

Thanks to its enormous primary mirror and its instruments that focus on IR, the telescope is able to peer through the dust and gas that make up the universe.

Nelson said that it will explore objects in the solar system and atmospheres of exoplanets, giving them clues as to whether or not their atmospheres are similar to our own.

We have some questions about where we come from. There is more to come. We are not sure who we are. It will answer some questions that we don't know what they are.

It is possible for it to see deeper back in time to when the Big bang happened.

Because the Universe is expanding, the light from the earliest stars is no longer in the visible and ultraviolet wavelength, but in the longer wavelength of theIR.

Astronomers think they will easily break the record for the earliest observations of the Big Bang, which was 330 million years ago.

20 year life

The telescope could stay operational for 20 years thanks to an efficient launch by NASA's partner Arianespace.

She said that the 20 years will allow them to go deeper into history and time, as well as deeper into science.

Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's top scientist, said that the agency plans to share the first image of a distant planet with the public on July 12.

A planetary spectrum can help determine the atmosphere and other properties of a distant object, such as whether it has water or not.

Zurbuchen said that they would look at the worlds that kept them awake at night and wonder if there was life elsewhere.

The previous exoplanet spectroscopies using existing instruments were very limited compared to what we can do with the new instruments.

He likened current technology to being in a room that is very dark and only able to see through a small hole in the wall. You can see all the little details if you open a big window.

Agence France- Presse.