The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful and complex one of its kind with the ability to observe the first galaxies ever formed - only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang
The Webb telescope’s mission is to shed light on some of the questions that have occupied our minds since the dawn of humankind.
The first galaxies coming into existence is only second to the formation of the first stars following the Big Bang. In doing that, scientists actually have a pretty good idea of where to look in search of life: the habitable zone, also known as the Goldilocks Zone, where planets are at the exact right distance from their stars that they are neither too close to the star that it is too hot, nor too far from the star that it is too cold to support life.
Before Webb, exoplanets had also been too distant for direct examinations and observing their atmospheres was not an option, especially considering that peering into other solar systems is a relatively new phenomenon.
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