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Telescopes and space missions

Telescopes and space missions

A new cosmic dawn: peering across the universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

07 Jan 2022
Taken from the January 2022 issue of Physics World.

With NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope finally launched, Keith Cooper explores the mission’s troubled past, its technological advances and the exciting future ahead for astronomy

Artist's conception of the James Webb Space Telescope
Ready to fly: An artist’s impression of the James Webb Space Telescope. (Courtesy: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez)
The original deep-field image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most iconic images i

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Keith Cooper is a science journalist based in the UK. His book The Contact Paradox: Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Bloomsbury Sigma) is available now. Follow him @21stCenturySETI on Twitter
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