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1150 light years away! Imagine how much more details can be detected for stuff within 50 light years. Really, they should be already building 2nd James Webb. I
by saiya-jin 4y ago
1150 light years away! Imagine how much more details can be detected for stuff within 50 light years.
Really, they should be already building 2nd James Webb. I am sure even 10 of them would get 100% utilization for their whole lifetime. I can only imagine what kind of needless political game is happening around prioritization of time slots for it.
Or start working on next-gen, bigger, more resilient etc. It costs peanuts compared to any significant CERN upgrade and we have so much room to progress in astronomy (aka understanding our home, this universe) just by getting more data and resolution.
- jacquesm 4y agoI fear there won't be any more JWSTs at all. People are already bitching about how much it cost and that all it does is make pretty pictures right here in this thread and there were many times that it came within a hair of having its budget slashed. Super happy we have one JWST, and I hope fervently that it will outlast its original mission by a large fraction, every sign right now points in that direction.
- coldpie 4y ago> People are already bitching about how much it cost I like to point out that Microsoft could have paid for seven JWSTs (development costs and all) with what they paid for one Activision.
- radicaldreamer 4y agoNow imagine the funding for all the spy satellite programs over the past few decades...
- jacquesm 4y agoHubble definitely piggybacked on the defense applications, for JWST that isn't the case.
- mden 4y agoThe next NASA space telescope is The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/the-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/the-nancy-grace-roman-spac....