16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
... candidates for future detailed studies by up and coming observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Hubble's successor, JWST, will be NASA's premier observatory of the next decade, and will serve thousands of astronomers across many...
08 January 2020
New technique on finding oxygen could help find alien life
... telescope, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) when it is launched next year. JWST will be optimised to look for light in...looking for also overlaps a wide H2O band in the infrared that JWST can pick up too, however, the water signature in the ...
04 May 2020
Exoplanets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could harbour life
..., especially planetary atmospheric ones such as methane, carbon monoxide (CO), and carbon dioxide (CO2). With the aid of JWST and ground-based spectrometers and given the tenacity of both a simple cellular architecture such as E. coli and...
18 November 2020
Astronomers want to revive idea for ‘Ultimately Large Telescope’ on the Moon
...for decades. “The upcoming James Webb Space Telescope [JWST] will reach the time when galaxies first formed....of ‘very first light’ is beyond the capabilities even of the powerful JWST, and instead needs an ‘ultimate’ telescope,” added Bromm, who is ...
23 June 2021
Exoplanets with Earth-like biospheres may be rare
... of the study says. When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launches later this year, it will have the sensitivity to study...for complex life to evolve, are hopes already dashed before JWST gets off the ground? “Unfortunately it appears that the...
07 September 2016
Astronomers reveal the clearest picture yet of how the galaxy formed
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers based at Notre Dame have used colours to identify the approximate ages of more than 130,000 stars in the galactic halo to produce the clearest picture yet of how the Milky Way formed more ...
