A new era of space exploration… “NASA” announces the largest and most powerful telescope ever

The US space agency, NASA, announced the launch of the new James Webb Space Telescope on December 18.

The company said in a statement, published on its official website, that scientists hope that the telescope will inaugurate a new era of discoveries.

new launch date for the james webb space telescope has been announced: 18 december 2021.
it's the most complex and biggest astronomical project ever constructed. the world’s premier deep space observatory will look further through space (and time) than any other telescope before. pic.twitter.com/YMSlPbvoBV

— microscopic images. (@microscopicture) September 9, 2021

The cost of the telescope reached 10 billion dollars, and it is a joint production between the American, European and Canadian space agencies, and it is scheduled to be launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from the space station in the French Guiana region.

James Webb Telescope, almost ready to go https://t.co/YqgLECRkc6 pic.twitter.com/uGcj5EEk2J

— Gaston Giribet (@GastonGiribet) September 5, 2021

The telescope is now located in Redondo Beach, California, USA, awaiting shipment, and it is the largest and most powerful telescope ever.

James Webb Space Telescope now launching…

December 18! pic.twitter.com/996R8V1uJd

— Chelsea "Foxanne" Gohd (@chelsea_gohd) September 8, 2021

The new telescope is characterized by the ability to detect infrared radiation, and by the time the light from the first objects reaches the telescopes, it will have shifted towards the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum as a result of the expansion of the universe.

Scientists hope that James Webb will enhance the discovery of alien worlds, because of his enormous ability with infrared rays, as the current Hubble Space Telescope has limited capabilities with these rays.
Yesterday, Wednesday, the US space agency “NASA” announced the success of the spacecraft “Perseverance” in collecting the first sample extracted from the surface of the red planet “Mars” for analysis on Earth.
The agency said that the Perseverance rover was able to collect a sample slightly thicker than a pencil from the bottom of an ancient lake on Mars, then put it in a titanium sample tube and sealed it tightly.

NASA plans to collect up to 43 mineral samples over the next few months from the bottom of Jezero crater, a vast basin into which scientists believe water flowed and that microbes may have lived there billions of years ago.

Collecting mineral samples is an essential part of the $2.7 billion Perseverance project.

It is planned that two future Mars missions, one for “NASA” and the other for the European Space Agency, will transport these samples to Earth within the next ten years, where astrobiologists will examine them for indications of fossils of microorganisms.

Such fossils will be the first hard evidence that any form of life outside the planet will ever exist.