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How do we know, uh, which direction to send it in?
by nickstinemates 4y ago
How do we know, uh, which direction to send it in?
- ryukoposting 4y agoWe know where the sun is, and we know to send it somewhere else.
- nickstinemates 4y agoYeah but with the enormity of the universe, there's many directions to send a a telescope in, right?
- ryukoposting 4y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZe5J8SVCYQ
- nickstinemates 4y ago:)
- SiempreViernes 4y agoYes, but there are only a few places it can go were it would stay put, which we want because if it goes too far away we loose track of it and then it's just junk that might give someone a bad day in several millions of years.
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- bryananderson 4y agoAnyone can apply for time to point JWST somewhere by making a research proposal to the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). STScI weighs the proposals and picks the ones that it judges to be most compelling. This is the same system that is used for Hubble. You’d be competing with the world’s top research teams, and there isn’t remotely enough time for JWST to execute all of the proposals, so in practice your chances are low as a layperson—but anyone can at least submit a proposal.
- _8j50 4y agoVery interested in what it sees in boote's void.