<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="knvmm38d qzhwtbm6" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;"><span class="oo9gr5id d9wwppkn qv66sw1b mau55g9w aigsh9s9 iv3no6db fe6kdd0r nxhoafnm hpfvmrgz c8b282yb hzawbc8m jq4qci2q ht8s03o8 ik7dh3pa a8c37x1j b1v8xokw keod5gw0 oi732d6d c1et5uql d2edcug0 a3bd9o3v" dir="auto" style="line-height: 1.3333; display: block; word-wrap: break-word; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; word-break: break-word;"><h3 class="gmql0nx0 l94mrbxd p1ri9a11 lzcic4wl hzawbc8m aahdfvyu" style="margin: 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="5" class="">Good morning all,</font></span></h3><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="5" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="5" class=""> I know many are on Holiday vacation…<font color="#ff2600" class="">.I want to wish those who celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa, a wonderful day filled with happiness and love…</font>it has certainly been an amazing year…who would have thought last year, at this time, we would still be battling the pandemic despite all the preventive measures,...it seems we are not doing much better than a year ago as the latest strain has many in lockdown…in the US many people will be traveling, having parties with huge celebrations... there is a good possibility a big spike will occur…hopefully, with so many vaccinated, the results will not be as tragic…</font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="5" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="5" class="">Tomorrow morning, Christmas day, James Webb Telescope is scheduled to launch…astronomers around the world will be following closely as the launch was initially planned for 2007...many factors have caused the delays but hopefully, tomorrow morning,<span style="caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> it will be a Christmas present for scientists around the world. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span></font></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77); font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="5" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The Webb space telescope is currently scheduled to launch no earlier than </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">7:20 a.m. on Saturday (Dec. 25) </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">from the </span><a href="https://www.space.com/33949-guiana-space-center.html" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Guiana Space Center</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> in Kourou, French Guiana. On that day, you'll be able to watch one of several English-language virtual launch events on </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive" target="_blank" data-url="https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">NASA Live</u></a><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">, as well as <a href="http://Space.com" class="">Space.com</a>, where we will also be streaming the telescope's flight courtesy of NASA TV. 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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"><font face="Gill Sans" class="" size="5">W<span class="" style="background-color: white;">e have to stay positive and always be thankful…</span> remembering to do our best, enjoy everything we do, believe in ourselves, and let those we care about most know (I always say this, we all need to take it to heart) …hugs… STAY SAFE, TAKE CARE, Love ya, Gabe :-) :-) </font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class="" style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"><font face="Gill Sans" class="" size="5">CHRISTMAS/HOLIDAY GREETINGS FROM MY HOME TO YOURS...</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"><font face="Gill Sans" class="" size="5"><img apple-inline="yes" id="9A82AFA2-331E-4BB3-994D-DB5BA24839E0" src="cid:B8AAE23A-0584-4D05-B6BB-ED74FC1EC945" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="ED3511E2-2B95-4A1F-8E20-1C226FB3DCB6" src="cid:B9DF3F5C-E223-4C57-A4CF-83CA8A6176E7" class=""></font></span></p><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><h3 class="gmql0nx0 l94mrbxd p1ri9a11 lzcic4wl hzawbc8m aahdfvyu" style="color: inherit; 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text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; display: block; width: 739.921875px; height: auto;" class=""></picture></span></span><span class="e-image__meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(209, 209, 209); color: rgb(98, 98, 98); display: block; width: 739.921875px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;" class="">An artist’s depiction of the JWST deployed in space. </figcaption><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline; opacity: 0.75;" class="">NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez</cite></span></figure><div class="c-entry-content " style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><p id="jbooSz" style="caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77); font-style: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" face="Gill Sans" class="">After decades of planning, engineering, many delays, and <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/james-webb-space-telescope-nasa-controversy/620445/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">some controversy</a>, it’s finally happening: <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22664709/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-date-december-science-hubble" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">The James Webb Space Telescope</a> is <a href="https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1473761655603482631" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">set</a> to launch at 7:20 am Eastern on Saturday, December 25, making it a long-awaited Christmas present for scientists around the world. (Though further delays are possible. Earlier this week, NASA was eyeing a Christmas Eve launch <a href="https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1473408195158626307?s=21" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">but changed plans</a> due to bad weather.) </font></p><p id="uuiKbE" style="caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77); font-style: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" face="Gill Sans" class="">After the telescope launches from French Guiana to a point <a href="https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Herschel/L2_the_second_Lagrangian_Point" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">nearly a million miles away</a> from Earth, it will become the largest telescope in space, capable of showing humanity regions of space (and time) never seen before.</font></p><p id="zM4ZBk" style="caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77); font-style: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px;" class=""><font size="4" face="Gill Sans" class="">NASA, which is launching the telescope in collaboration with the European Space Agency and Canada, will broadcast the launch live, with a feed scheduled to start at 6 am Eastern. You can stream it below. </font></p><div class=""><font color="#4c4e4d" face="Gill Sans" size="5" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77);" class=""><a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2021/12/24/22846430/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-date-livestream" class="">https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2021/12/24/22846430/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-date-livestream</a> </span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#4c4e4d" face="Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><p id="PGVDkR" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77);" class="">Be prepared for a nail-biter. The launch and subsequent deployment are high-stakes for a few reasons:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem 0.6rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.2rem; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77);" class=""><li id="TKjI2n" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.6rem; padding: 0px;" class="">The telescope has to pull off a difficult mechanical maneuver: assembling itself, in space. The telescope is so large — about the size of a tennis court — that it needs to launch folded up inside the rocket. Once in space, it needs to deploy and unfold itself, flawlessly, in sequence <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/the-road-to-launch-and-beyond-for-nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">over the course of several weeks</a>. <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/the-road-to-launch-and-beyond-for-nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">Accor</a><a href="https://appel.nasa.gov/2021/11/24/webbs-deployments-most-complex-ever-attempted/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">d</a><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/the-road-to-launch-and-beyond-for-nasa-s-james-webb-space-telescope" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">ing to NASA</a>, there are more than 300 “single point failures” involved in the mission. These are technical problems that, if they arise, could doom the whole endeavor. (See how the Webb unfolds in the video below.)</li></ul><aside id="m9CgVT" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77);" class=""><div class="c-read-more" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 8px 0px; border-color: rgb(209, 209, 209); border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px; clear: right;"><p class="c-read-more__intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">RELATED</p><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-size: calc(1em); line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.6rem; padding: 0px;" class=""><a data-analytics-link="readmore" href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22664709/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-date-december-science-hubble" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 0px;" class="">The largest space telescope in history is about to blow our minds</a></h4></div></aside><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem 0.6rem; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.2rem; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77);" class=""><li id="85Nucd" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.6rem; padding: 0px;" class="">Because the Webb is being sent so far away — about four times the distance of the Earth to the moon — if anything goes wrong with the telescope mechanically, scientists on the ground will be out of luck. It will not be possible to launch a crewed mission to repair it. (The Hubble Space Telescope, infamously, had to be repaired after it was launched. It’s only 340 miles away.) </li><li id="C5K1PQ" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.6rem; padding: 0px;" class="">The cost. After being approved in the early 2000s, the telescope was originally supposed to <a href="https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2002/news-2002-20.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">launch in 2010</a> and <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/8/22663027/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-launch-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">cost around $1 billion</a>. Since then, the price tag has ballooned to around $10 billion.</li></ul><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="5" class=""><a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2021/12/24/22846430/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-date-livestream" class="">https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2021/12/24/22846430/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-date-livestream</a> </font></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p id="AGeaKc" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77);" class="">If the Webb survives its journey and deploys according to plan, scientists say it will be a paradigm-shifting telescope in terms of our understanding of the universe. </p><h3 id="qsMTYs" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: calc(1.44em); line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.6rem; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77);" class="">Why the James Webb Space telescope is such a big deal </h3><p id="ko7SO8" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77);" class="">The Webb, which is (<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/james-webb-space-telescope-nasa-controversy/620445/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">controversially</a>) named after a former NASA administrator, improves on its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, in two key ways. The first is just its size: Hubble was about the size of a school bus, whereas Webb is more like the size of a tennis court. “This thing is enormous,” <a href="https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/amber.n.straughn" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">Amber Straughn</a>, an astrophysicist at NASA who works on the Webb, said earlier this year. “Webb is by far the biggest telescope NASA’s ever attempted to send into space.”</p><p id="zzJFki" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77);" class="">But it’s not just the total size of the contraption that matters. When it comes to reflecting telescopes like these, the key component is the size of its curved mirror. Hubble’s mirror was an impressive 7.8 feet in diameter. Webb’s beautiful, gold-hued mirrors combine for a diameter of 21.3 feet. Overall, that amounts to more than <a href="https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/forScientists/faqScientists.html#collectingarea" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">six times the light-collecting area</a>.</p><figure class="e-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 2.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77);"><span class="e-image__inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; 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The Hubble mirror is smaller." data-upload-width="1414" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/q_AVL3ZKerPcvPInY1RM_VawX6o=/0x0:1414x957/1200x0/filters:focal(0x0:1414x957):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22863755/JWST_HST_primary_mirrors.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; display: block; width: 1414px; height: auto;" class=""></picture></span></span><span class="e-image__meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(209, 209, 209); color: rgb(98, 98, 98); display: block; width: 739.921875px;"><cite style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline; opacity: 0.75;" class="">NASA</cite></span></figure><p id="iuqA4u" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77);" class="">The Webb’s other advantage is the type of light it collects.</p><p id="zYPeAF" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77);" class="">Light comes in a lot of different varieties. The human eye can see only a narrow band known as visible light, but the universe contains lots of light outside this range, including the higher-frequency, higher-energy forms: ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays. Then there’s the lower-energy light with longer wavelengths: infrared, microwaves, radio.</p><figure class="e-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 2.2rem 0px; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77);"><span class="e-image__inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block; position: relative;"><span class="e-image__image " data-original="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22870500/spectrum_copy.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block; width: 739.921875px;"><picture class="c-picture" data-cid="site/picture_element-1640354420_8425_3526136" data-cdata="{"asset_id":22870500,"ratio":"*"}" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; max-width: 100%; display: block; width: 640px; height: auto;" class=""></picture></span></span><span class="e-image__meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(209, 209, 209); color: rgb(98, 98, 98); display: block; width: 739.921875px;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;" class="">Hubble could observe a little bit of infrared light, but Webb takes it much further.</figcaption> <cite style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline; opacity: 0.75;" class="">NASA and J. Olmstead (STScI)</cite></span></figure><p id="qhkR9S" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77);" class="">The Hubble Space Telescope collects visible light, ultraviolet, and a little bit of infrared. The Webb <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/51145917599/in/photostream/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">is primarily an infrared telescope</a>, so it sees light with a longer wavelength than our eyes can see. This seems nerdy and technical, but it’s actually what allows Webb to look further back in time than the Hubble. </p><p id="eKOOIo" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77);" class="">Infrared light is often very old light, due to a phenomenon called redshifting. When a light source is moving away from a viewer, it gets stretched out, morphing into longer and longer wavelengths. Because space is constantly expanding, the farthest things away from us in the universe are moving away from us. “And as light travels through space from those distant galaxies, the light is literally stretched by the expansion of space,” Straughn says.</p><p id="pMXpMn" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77);" class="">This is also why the Webb is being launched so far away. Because Webb is an infrared telescope, it needs to be kept cold. The Earth itself is warm and glows in infrared. “Anything warm glows in infrared light,” Straughn says. “If the telescope was warm, it would just glow and see itself.” So NASA and its partners are sending the telescope to orbit a point in space called <a href="https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Herschel/L2_the_second_Lagrangian_Point" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">a Lagrange point</a>, a spot where the telescope can orbit the sun, all the while staying cold and in line with the Earth.</p><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="5" class=""><a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2021/12/24/22846430/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-date-livestream" class="">https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2021/12/24/22846430/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-date-livestream</a> </font></div></div><div class=""><figcaption style="color: rgb(98, 98, 98); font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); font-family: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;" class="">The James Webb Space Telescope’s orbit, as seen from above the sun’s north pole and from Earth’s perspective. </figcaption><cite style="color: rgb(98, 98, 98); font-size: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); font-family: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline; opacity: 0.75;" class="">Michael McClare/Aaron E. Lepsch/Josh Masters via NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center</cite></div><div class=""><p id="WaoG7W" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: Balto, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77);" class="">All told, these features will allow astronomers to look not only farther out in space but also further back in time. Webb will be able to search for the <a href="https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/science/firstLight.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">first stars and galaxies of the universe</a>, and see “cosmic dawn,” a time when the universe <a href="https://astronomy.com/magazine/news/2021/01/the-beginning-to-the-end-of-the-universe-the-cosmic-dark-ages" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">went from being opaque</a> and dark to transparent and filled with starlight. It will allow scientists to make careful studies of <a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22664709/james-webb-space-telescope-launch-date-december-science-hubble" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(79, 113, 119); transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: transparent; font-weight: 600;" class="">numerous exoplanets</a> — planets that orbit stars other than our sun — and even embark on a search for signs of life there.</p></div><div id="l6cvs0" style="caret-color: rgb(76, 78, 77); color: rgb(76, 78, 77); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><div style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; left: 0px; width: 739.921875px; height: auto; position: relative;" class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>