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Recently a new telescope made out of gold has launched into space, and now is fully deployed. It’s called the James Webb telescope. This is different from any other telescope we have seen, and is replacing the Hubble space telescope that has been in space for 21 years. The telescope is using a new technology and uses thermal energy and can see further than any telescope we have ever made. It can even peer through dust and smoke. We will be able to see things that happened billions of years ago, meaning we can explore the big bang even more than before. The James Webb telescope brings out a plethora of opportunities for science.

Infrared is an amazing technology and has many uses. We can now see even further with no dust blocking us. There is one problem with inferred and that is that inferred light doesn't pass through glass so we use salt crystals. This gives us the opportunity to see the first galaxy. Even though we can’t see infrared light it is still extremely amazing. 

The optics of The Webb telescope is even more interesting. It has gold hexagon shaped plants that are folded into a mirror. The infrared light boses of the gold mirror and onto a detector. Ethan, a 6th grader in 605 said. 

“When Hubble was launched it needed to have it’s mirrors tweaked by 500 nanometers. That is the width of your hair. Since The Webb telescope will be so far out so that we won't be able to go and help, Webb has amazing motors in each of the panels.” 

This means that the Webb can do everything by itself without needing physical help. It takes 3 months to align all 18 hexagon mirrors to perfectly align with the Webbs image sensor. It also takes a very long time to take one picture with the telescope, but it has hundreds of flaps so it can focus on multiple stars and galaxies at the same time. 

The James Webb telescope is on a special orbit called the Labrage point2 (L2.) On L2 the Gravitational pulls of the Earth and the sun both combine, and create an orbit such like earth’s. The James Webb ‘scope will be traveling around itself while going around the sun (1 year.) L2 is perfect because Webb is fasting its back/heat reflector the sun towards the sun which creates a shadow of all the light from the sun so we can focus only on the light of the object we are looking at. 

In the future James Webb space telescope has a large opportunity for the future. The James Webb telescope is an amazing piece of technology and will answer many questions about the universe.