What Scientists & Elon Musk Really Think of James Webb Telescope will blow your mind! What do you do when you want to observe somewhere so deep in space that you can never reach? You send a space observation station! NASA has done precisely that by sending the James Web Space Telescope to deep space so that it can help us see more of our Universe! But is the result really worth what NASA has spent for a mind-blowing 30 years? Here’s what Elon Musk & Scientists really think of the James Webb Telescope which has changed everything you can think of before!
The telescope is one of humankind's most important inventions, although we’re not entirely sure who to give the credit to.
The first person to apply for a patent for a telescope was Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey. In 1608, Lippershey laid claim to a device that could magnify objects three times. His telescope had a concave eyepiece aligned with a convex objective lens. One story goes that he got the idea for his design after observing two children in his shop holding up two lenses that made a distant weather vane appear close. Others claimed at the time that he stole the design from another eyeglass maker, Zacharias Jansen.
Either way, the telescope has been developed more and more since then. The world is also getting more and more excited about this amazing tool.
So, even before its historic launch, the James Webb space telescope had captured the world's attention. Elon Musk, the ruler of the space industry right now, replied to a BBC Twitter article, that shed light on Webb's goals of searching for the 'end of darkness', Musk called it a "big deal".
Why big deal?
For those new to this scientific leap, launching the Webb telescope is actually a big deal for quite a few reasons. First of all, the telescope is a collaboration of three space agencies - NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and is finally nearing its launch after 30 years of development. Not to forget, apart from an insane amount of time, the space agencies have poured in nearly $10 billion of capital to bring Webb into existence.
Another reason that makes the Webb telescope a big deal is the path it has been treading on. Built to detect even the faintest of the information-carrying infrared light, the telescope will peer back in time, nearly 13 billion years ago, when the first stars emerged. This telescope was built in a way with results to be expected like that of a time machine, through which scientists will revisit the early days of our universe and learn how the universe got filled with light. It is known that before the big bang, all that the universe had in the name of cosmic entity was darkness, and this darkness was eliminated with the ignition of the first stars far away from our planet. The telescope will hunt for the lights that emerged from the first stars billions of years ago after it points its 21-foot gold-plated mirrors toward a tiny space in the sky. What Scientists & Elon Musk Really Think of James Webb Telescope will blow your mind!
