Findings Of James Webb Telescope: Jupiter

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST):

• • JWST is an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency.
• Launch: It was launched in 2021 on a European Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in South America.

• • It is currently observing from Lagrange point 2, approximately 1.5 million km beyond Earth’s orbit around the Sun.
• Lagrange point is a point where net force acting on a body is zero, in any revolving two-body system like Earth and Sun, where the gravitational forces of the two large bodies cancel each other out.

Key Features: 

• JWST is primarily an infrared telescope which allows it to look much deeper into the universe, and see-through obstructions such as gas clouds
• It has one large mirror, with a diameter of 21 feet, that will capture the infra-red light coming in from the deep universe while facing away from the Sun.

Goals:

• To search for the first galaxies that formed after the Big Bang. 
• To determine how galaxies evolved from their earlier formation until now.
• To observe the formation of stars from the first stages to the formation of planetary systems.
• To measure the physical and chemical properties of planetary systems and investigate the potential for life in such systems.