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JWST: Planets to Cosmology. Mario Livio Space Telescope Science Institute. Hardware progressing: Mirror in final stages of testing. The James Webb Space Telescope. Hardware progressing: Sunshield full-scale membrane. The JWST sunshield - full scale membrane. Log scale: 2.0 ” x 2.0 ”.
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JWST:Planets to Cosmology Mario LivioSpace Telescope Science Institute
The James Webb Space Telescope Hardware progressing: Sunshield full-scale membrane The JWST sunshield - full scale membrane Log scale: 2.0” x 2.0” Linear scale: 2.0” x 2.0”
JWST will see the very first galaxies Hubble UDF Simulated JWST
Razor sharp vision of early universe 1’x1’ region in the UDF – 3.5 to 5.8 μm Implications for: Pop III star clusters?, reionization, cosmic star formation history, structure formation, galaxy evolution Spitzer, 90,000s per band(GOODS collaboration) JWST, 1000s per band(simulated)
The James Webb Space Telescope Extrasolar planets:habitable zone JWST will see planets around other stars
JWST: spectroscopy and photometry of transiting exoplanets Temperature-pressure profiles, molecular species, moons