The whole world is stunned by the first color shots James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). And for nothing less, because all the secrets of astronomy, distant galaxies and other beautiful astronomical objects attract the attention of the public – especially when they are photographs of such high resolution. But another exciting revelation from JWST not to be missed: telescope was able to identify water vapor in the atmosphere of a planet 1,150 light-years from Earth.

James Webb finds water vapor on a gas planet

The discovery of water on an exoplanet in its most diverse forms always draws attention. Despite the fact that we have not found – yet – a habitable planet, and this discovery James Webb whether on a very hot, gaseous planet very close to its star, that says a lot about the future of humanity and technology JWST.

gas planet atmosphere OSA-96 b has water vapor and James Webb managed to detect this despite being 1,150 light-years away. O telescope made the discovery using NIRISS (Near Infrared Spectrographic Instrument) by measuring the light emitted Star system WASP-96 (exoplanets of the system are indicated by a letter after the name of the star) for almost 6 hours and 30 minutes.

Demonstration of the capabilities of the tools JWST shows how this will revolutionize exoplanet research. With the start of its operation, we are closer to the search for habitable planets – and even life, as one of the directors said. NASA. We wait, James Webb.

James Webb: years from production to release

project James Webb telescope was developed National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in collaboration with European and Canadian space agencies. It was originally supposed to be launched in 2007. But some problems delayed the launch of the model, one of them was the high cost of production of the James Webb telescope, which was increasing more and more and back in 2005 made Engineers rethink the original design.

In 2016, the telescope was declared ready, but its project was again put on hold due to construction difficulties and remained so until 2019, when it was finally assembled. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been more delays until NASA finally scheduled for December 18, 2021 for release.

With it, researchers will be able to observe even more things from space, being able to see some of the oldest galaxies in the universe and other celestial bodies such as black holes.

Source: NASA, BGR.

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