Nasa will reveal “the deepest image ever taken of our universe“July 12, thanks to its new James Webb space telescope, Bill Nelson, the head of the American agency, said on Wednesday.
“It’s farther than anything humanity has looked before.“, he said during a press conference at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the center of operations for this $10 billion engineering gem launched in December and now at $1.5 million. miles from Earth.
James Webb is able to look further into the cosmos than any telescope before it thanks to its huge main mirror, and its instruments that perceive infrared signals, which allow it to peer through clouds of dust. “It will explore solar system objects and the atmospheres of exoplanets orbiting other stars, giving us clues as to whether their atmospheres are potentially similar to ours.“, explained Bill Nelson.
