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The terrestrial planet finder or any other optical telescope would have been much more revolutionary for fascinating humans with unbelievably pretty pictures
by The_rationalist 5y ago
The terrestrial planet finder or any other optical telescope would have been much more revolutionary for fascinating humans with unbelievably pretty pictures
- Denvercoder9 5y agoJWST isn't build to fascinate humans with unbelievably pretty pictures, it's build to better understand the early years of the universe.
- The_rationalist 5y ago
- outworlder 5y ago> or any other optical telescope would have been much more revolutionary Why? JWST is pretty damn revolutionary. There's only so much you can see with visible light. You really want old and far away stuff, go infrared.
- svachalek 5y agoI saw on one of NASA's videos, an astronomer also commented that many of the bio-signature gases they would look for in exoplanet atmospheres are also best seen in the infrared. There's going to be a lot of interesting research coming out of this.
- The_rationalist 5y ago