{"id":157532,"date":"2021-12-31T19:24:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T13:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=157532"},"modified":"2021-12-31T19:24:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T13:54:52","slug":"on-james-webb-space-telescope-jwst-a-new-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/on-james-webb-space-telescope-jwst-a-new-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"On James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): A new universe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: <span class=\"p-content paywall\">The 25-year saga of the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/james-webb-space-telescopejwst\/\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a><\/strong><\/span> (JWST) illustrates the difficulties in doing pure science, and the way <strong>international cooperation<\/strong> can overcome such difficulties. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"p-content paywall\">The JWST was conceptualised in 1996 when development began with an initial R&amp;D budget of $500 million. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"p-content paywall\">It took a <strong>combined effort<\/strong> from America\u2019s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to launch the JWST. The lifetime mission cost will be over $10 billion. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"p-content paywall\">The technical difficulties were considerable. It took <strong>thousands of scientists and engineers<\/strong> to iron out the problems, and create the JWST. A total of 258 companies, government agencies, and academic institutions have contributed, over the past 25 years.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key points<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"p-content paywall\">\u00a0<strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Apart from distant galaxies, it would also analyse exoplanets <em>(planets orbiting other star systems)<\/em> in great detail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"p-content paywall\"><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> One of the wonderful features of this project is that anybody can submit a proposal for JWST observations, and the data gathered and transmitted back to Earth will all eventually be publicly available.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more about JWST<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/james-webb-telescope-in-the-centre-of-lgbt-debate\/\">JWST in the centre of a LGBT debate<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-nasas-flagship-telescope-and-its-successor\/\">Explained: NASA\u2019s flagship telescope, and its successor<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: This post is based on the article \u201c<strong>A new universe<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>Business Standard<\/strong> on <strong>30<sup>th<\/sup> Dec 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The 25-year saga of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) illustrates the difficulties in doing pure science, and the way international cooperation can overcome such difficulties. The JWST was conceptualised in 1996 when development began with an initial R&amp;D budget of $500 million. It took a combined effort from America\u2019s National Aeronautics and Space&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/on-james-webb-space-telescope-jwst-a-new-universe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): A new universe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,216],"class_list":["post-157532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704778219},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}