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    James Webb Space Telescope to launch in October 31, 2021

    The launch of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) on an Ariane 5 Rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana is now planned for 31 October 2021.

    NASA has announced the decision, based on a recently completed schedule risk assessment of the remaining integration and test activities before launch, accounting for impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic and technical challenges. Previously, Webb was targeted to launch in March 2021.



    Webb's primary mirror. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn Testing of the observatory continues to go well at Northrop Grumman, the mission's main industry partner in Redondo Beach, California, despite the challenges of the coronavirus situation. The factors for the new launch date include the impacts of augmented safety precautions, reduced on-site personnel, shift work disruption and technical challenges. This year, a final set of complex environmental tests of the full observatory will be completed followed by a final deployment of the telescope and sunshield.

    "Webb is an unprecedented endeavour in space science, requiring utmost ingenuity in both the scientific and technical domains, in a very strong international partnership," said Prof. Günther Hasinger, ESA Director of Science. "The breakthrough science enabled by Webb will revolutionise our understanding of the Universe."

    The observatory will detect light from the first generation of stars and galaxies that formed in the early Universe and will study the atmospheres of habitable exoplanets.
    As part of the collaboration with NASA, Europe is contributing to the Webb observatory with two critical scientific instruments – the NIRSpec spectrograph and the MIRI mid-infrared instrument – and the launch service using the Ariane 5 launch vehicle. In addition, there is a contingent of ESA scientists and engineers supporting the observatory development and science operations.

    Next year, Webb will be will folded in its launch configuration for shipment to the launch site and fitted inside the Ariane 5 launcher fairing (about 5 m wide). On its journey into space, Webb will be the first mission to complete an intricate and technically challenging series of deployments – a critical part of Webb's journey to its orbit about one and a half million kilometres from Earth. Webb will unfold its delicate five-layered sunshield until it reaches the size of a tennis court. It will then deploy its 6.5 m primary mirror that will detect the faint light of distant stars and galaxies.
    Webb will be next great space science observatory, and will build on the success of another international endeavour, the Hubble Space Telescope, to solve the mysteries of our Solar System, to explore distant worlds around other stars and to uncover the origins of our Universe.

    The James Webb Space Telescope is an international project led by NASA with its partners, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency.
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    NASA’s Webb Sunshield Successfully Unfolds and Tensions in Final Tests

    Lengthened to the size of a tennis court, the five-layer sunshield of NASA’s fully assembled James Webb Space Telescope successfully completed a final series of large-scale deployment and tensioning tests. This milestone puts the observatory one step closer to its launch in 2021.

    “This is one of Webb’s biggest accomplishments in 2020,” said Alphonso Stewart, Webb deployment systems lead for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “We were able to precisely synchronize the unfolding motion in a very slow and controlled fashion and maintain its critical kite-like shape, signifying it is ready to perform these actions in space.”



    To help ensure success, technicians carefully inspect the James Webb Space Telescope’s sunshield before deployment testing begins, while it is occurring, and perform a full post-test analysis to ensure the observatory is operating as planned.
    Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn

    The sunshield protects the telescope and reflects light and background heat from the Sun, Earth and Moon into space. The observatory must be kept cold to accomplish groundbreaking science in infrared light, which is invisible to human eyes and felt as heat.

    In the sunshield’s shadow, Webb’s innovative technologies and sensitive infrared sensors will allow scientists to observe distant galaxies and study many other intriguing objects in the universe.

    Maintaining the sunshield’s shape involves a delicate, complicated process.

    “Congratulations to the entire team. Due to Webb’s large size and stringent performance requirements, the deployments are incredibly complex. In addition to the required technical expertise, this set of tests required detailed planning, determination, patience and open communication. The team proved that it has all these attributes. It’s amazing to think that next time Webb’s sunshield is deployed it will be many thousands of miles away, hurtling through space,” said James Cooper, Webb’s sunshield manager at Goddard.

    The Kapton® polymer-coated membranes of Webb’s sunshield were fully deployed and tensioned in December at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California. Northrop Grumman designed the observatory’s sunshield for NASA.

    During testing, engineers sent a series of commands to spacecraft hardware that activated 139 actuators, eight motors, and thousands of other components to unfold and stretch the five membranes of the sunshield into its final taut shape. A challenging part of the test is to unfold the sunshield in Earth’s gravity environment, which causes friction, unlike unfolding material in space without the effects of gravity.



    Shown fully deployed with all five of its layers tensioned, this is the last time the James Webb Space Telescope’s sunshield will be completely unfurled on Earth.
    Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn

    For launch the sunshield will be folded up around two sides of the observatory and placed in an Ariane 5 Launch Vehicle, which is provided by the European Space Agency.

    In this test, two pallet structures that hold the sunshield upright folded down, then two huge “arms” (known as the Mid-Boom Assembly) of the sunshield slowly telescoped outward, pulling the folded membranes along with them to resemble the synchronized movements of a very slowly choreographed dance. Once the arms locked in their horizontal position, the membranes of the sunshield were successfully tensioned individually starting with the bottom layer, separating each into their fully deployed shape.

    The large sunshield divides the observatory into a warm, Sun-facing side (about 185 degrees Fahrenheit) and a cold-space-facing side (minus 388 degrees Fahrenheit) comprised of the optics and scientific instruments. The sunshield will protect the observatory’s optics and sensors, so they remain at extremely cold temperatures to conduct science.

    “This milestone signals that Webb is well on its way to being ready for launch. Our engineers and technicians achieved incredible testing progress this month, reducing significant risk to the project by completing these milestones for launch next year,” said Bill Ochs, project manager for Webb at Goddard. “The team is now preparing for final post-environmental deployment testing on the observatory these next couple of months prior to shipping to the launch site next summer.”

    Webb has passed other rigorous deployment tests during its development, which successfully uncovered and resolved technical issues with the spacecraft. These tests validate that once in orbit, the observatory and its many redundant systems will function flawlessly.

    The James Webb Space Telescope will be the world's premier space science observatory when it launches in 2021. Webb will solve mysteries in our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

    Banner Image: The James Webb Space Telescope’s final tests are underway with the successful completion of its last sunshield deployment test, which occurred at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California.
    Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn

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    • I predict 100 fold more ExoPlanets detected via James Webb Space Telescope within 12 months ... and not only that ... they have much more details about those ExoPlanets!... and some of them have anomalies that will start a worldwide debate demanding much more openness dealing with Alien UFO Disclosure.
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    Cool stuff. Been waiting for this a long time, since they postponed for many years.

    Shouldn't it be much easier to launch already existing satellites into moon and mars orbits. Then we can have "Google Moon" and see every damn detail of whats really on the surface.

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    This is really good news. And a wonderful example of cooperation of as many as 17 (!) Countries. This makes me think positively about people. It means that all is not lost and the exploration of the unknown is still important.
    It seems to me that this telescope can be called the successor of Hubble and Arecibo together. Great job.

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    At a cost of 10 Billion how will it be used?

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    How Astronomers Apply To Use The $10 Billion James Webb Space Telescope

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    Astronomers across the world have submitted their applications to get time on the 10 billion dollar James Webb Space Telescope scheduled to launch next year. What do they actually need to do to have a chance at using the greatest space telescope humanity has ever built?

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    ⚠️ I sincerely & deeply hope "James Webb Telescope" will be used to study "Sirius A" & "Sirius B" and The Pleiades detecting if there any Exoplanets near it!

    Would be cool if they can confirm there IS a "water planet" covered totally with water near Sirius B

    ... and what about the 2 Dyson Spheres?
    • Scientists Can’t Explain What Huge Object Is Blocking The Light From This Distant Star
    • Researchers Just Found a Second 'Dyson Sphere' Star
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    This is really good news. And a wonderful example of cooperation of as many as 17 (!) Countries. This makes me think positively about people. It means that all is not lost and the exploration of the unknown is still important.
    It seems to me that this telescope can be called the successor of Hubble and Arecibo together. Great job.
    I don't mean to be a pessimist but we should wait to see if it makes it to space before we get too excited. I am not sure we will be allowed to learn what it will show us.
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    Psychologists say that pessimists are happier than optimists) Because they expect less from the world around them, which means they are less likely to be disappointed.
    I think, if this launch will be successful, they will provide reports on the information collected. At least to avoid any questions about the advisability of launching such a complex and expensive technology.
    It is possible, of course, that you are right and we will not get all the conclusions from these studies. But in any case, it is still necessary to wait until the first conclusions)

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    Psychologists say that pessimists are happier than optimists) Because they expect less from the world around them, which means they are less likely to be disappointed.
    I think, if this launch will be successful, they will provide reports on the information collected. At least to avoid any questions about the advisability of launching such a complex and expensive technology.
    It is possible, of course, that you are right and we will not get all the conclusions from these studies. But in any case, it is still necessary to wait until the first conclusions)

    What is the difference between a False Pessimist vs (assumed) "False" Optimist? (assumed "false" by the Pessimist).

    • I wrote an article about that premise 2 decades ago
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    Psychologists say that pessimists are happier than optimists) Because they expect less from the world around them, which means they are less likely to be disappointed.
    I think, if this launch will be successful, they will provide reports on the information collected. At least to avoid any questions about the advisability of launching such a complex and expensive technology.
    It is possible, of course, that you are right and we will not get all the conclusions from these studies. But in any case, it is still necessary to wait until the first conclusions)
    I try to always be an optimist. My father told me many times I am just setting myself up for disappointment because people are inherently evil but I try to remain the optimist....and I live far away from people.
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    The Milky Way May Be Swarming With Planets That Have Continents and Oceans Like Earth

    By University of Copenhagen February 23, 2021



    “All planets in the Milky Way may be formed by the same building blocks, meaning that planets with the same amount of water and carbon as Earth,” says Professor Anders Johansen. Credit: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)

    According to a new study from the University of Copenhagen, Earth, Venus, and Mars were created from small dust particles containing ice and carbon. The discovery opens up the possibility that the Milky Way may be filled with aquatic planets.

    Astronomers have long been looking into the vast universe in hopes of discovering alien civilizations. But for a planet to have life, liquid water must be present. The chances of that finding scenario have seemed impossible to calculate because it has been the assumption that planets like Earth get their water by chance if a large, ice asteroid hits the planet.
    Now, researchers from the GLOBE Institute at the University of Copenhagen have published an eye-opening study, indicating that water may be present during the very formation of a planet. According to the study’s calculations, this is true for both Earth, Venus and Mars.

    “All our data suggest that water was part of Earth’s building blocks, right from the beginning. And because the water molecule is frequently occurring, there is a reasonable probability that it applies to all planets in the Milky Way. The decisive point for whether liquid water is present is the distance of the planet from its star,” says Professor Anders Johansen from the Centre for Star and Planet Formation who has led the study that is published in the journal Science Advances.

    Are all planets formed by ice?

    Using a computer model, Anders Johansen and his team have calculated how quickly planets are formed, and from which building blocks. The study indicates that it was millimetre-sized dust particles of ice and carbon – which are known to orbit around all young stars in the Milky Way – that 4.5 billion years ago accreted in the formation of what would later become Earth.

    “Up to the point where Earth had grown to one percent of its current mass, our planet grew by capturing masses of pebbles filled with ice and carbon. Earth then grew faster and faster until, after five million years, it became as large as we know it today. Along the way, the temperature on the surface rose sharply, causing the ice in the pebbles to evaporate on the way down to the surface so that, today, only 0.1 percent of the planet is made up of water, even though 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered by water,” says Anders Johansen, who together with his research team in Lund ten years ago put forward the theory that the new study now confirms.

    The theory, called “pebble accretion,” is that planets are formed by pebbles that are clumping together, and that the planets then grow larger and larger.

    Anders Johansen explains that the water molecule H2O is found everywhere in our galaxy, and that the theory therefore opens up the possibility that other planets may have been formed in the same way as Earth, Mars, and Venus.

    “All planets in the Milky Way may be formed by the same building blocks, meaning that planets with the same amount of water and carbon as Earth – and thus potential places where life may be present – occur frequently around other stars in our galaxy, provided the temperature is right,” he says.

    Good chances for the emergence of life

    If planets in our galaxy had the same building blocks and the same temperature conditions as Earth, there will also be good chances that they may have about the same amount of water and continents as our planet.
    • Professor Martin Bizzarro, co-author of the study, says:
    “With our model, all planets get the same amount of water, and this suggests that other planets may have not just the same amount of water and oceans, but also the same amount of continents as here on Earth. It provides good opportunities for the emergence of life,” he says.

    If, on the other hand, it was random how much water was present on planets, the planets might look vastly different. Some planets would be too dry to develop life, while others would be completely covered by water.

    “A planet covered by water would of course be good for maritime beings, but would offer less than ideal conditions for the formation of civilizations that can observe the universe,” says Anders Johansen.

    Anders Johansen and his research team are looking forward to the next generation of space telescopes, which will offer far better opportunities to observe exoplanets orbiting a star other than the Sun.
    • “The new telescopes are powerful. They use spectroscopy, which means that by observing which type of light is being blocked from the planets’ orbit around their star, you can see how much water vapor there is. It can tell us something about the number of oceans on that planet,” he says.
    Reference: “A pebble accretion model for the formation of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System” by Anders Johansen, Thomas Ronnet, Martin Bizzarro, Martin Schiller, Michiel Lambrechts, Åke Nordlund and Helmut Lammer, 17 February 2021, Science Advances.
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    Forum Threads like these make life/living a bit more exiting to me at least we gonna see so so much more of the Mysterious Universe soon enough and I am NOT "afraid" for the unknown whatsoever.

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    NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Show Us More Stars at Higher Resolution—Here’s What That Means for Astronomy

    The combination of high resolution and infrared-detecting instruments on NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will reveal stars that are currently hidden even from the powerful Hubble Space Telescope. The wealth of additional star data will allow astronomers to investigate a range of questions, from star birth to star death to the universe’s elusive expansion rate. Early observations with Webb will demonstrate its ability to distinguish the individual light of stars in the local universe in a range of environments and provide astronomers with tools for making the most of Webb’s powerful capabilities.



    This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows the heart of the globular star cluster Messier 92 (M92), one of the oldest and brightest in the Milky Way. The cluster packs roughly 330,000 stars tightly together, and they orbit the center of the galaxy en masse. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will observe M92, or a similar globular cluster, early in its mission to demonstrate its ability to distinguish the light of its individual stars in a densely packed environment. Webb’s high resolution and sensitivity will provide scientists a wealth of detailed star data relevant to many areas of astronomy, including the stellar lifecycle and the evolution of the universe.

    “NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have been transformative, opening the door to the infrared universe, beyond the realm of red visible light. Webb is a natural evolution of those missions, combining Spitzer’s view of the infrared universe with Hubble’s sensitivity and resolution,” says Daniel Weisz of the University of California, Berkeley, the principal investigator on Webb’s early release science (ERS) program on resolved populations of stars.

    Webb’s ability to resolve individual stars that are shrouded behind gas and dust in visible light will be applicable to many areas of astronomical research. The goals of this ERS program are to demonstrate Webb’s capabilities in the local universe and create free, open-source data analysis programs for astronomers to make the best use of the observatory as quickly as possible. Data from the ERS programs will be available to other astronomers immediately, and archived for future research via the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST).
    • Insight into Dark Energy
    Webb’s ability to pick out details for more individual stars than we have seen before will improve distance measurements to nearby galaxies, which Weisz says will be crucial to one of the biggest mysteries of modern-day astronomy: How fast is the universe expanding? A phenomenon called dark energy seems to be driving this expansion. Various methods for calculating the expansion rate have resulted in different answers, discrepancies astronomers hope Webb’s data can help reconcile.

    “In order to do any of this science, calculating distances and then the universe’s expansion rate, we need to be able to extract the light of individual stars from Webb images,” Weisz says. “Our ERS program team will develop software that empowers the community to make those types of measurements.”



    NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is designed to observe infrared light—wavelengths of light that are beyond the rainbow visible to human eyes. Infrared light’s longer wavelengths provide information that other wavelengths cannot, including star formation and other processes that take place behind thick veils of dust, which block the shorter wavelengths of visible light. Webb will detect a range of infrared light that overlaps with those observed by other NASA missions, but will also cover a significant portion of the infrared spectrum that they do not. This infographic highlights Webb’s overlapping and complimentary spectrum coverage with two NASA missions: the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope. Webb features a combination of Hubble’s imaging power and sensitivity with Spitzer’s infrared coverage, and goes beyond both to provide a wealth of new infrared data on the universe that is hidden beyond visible red light.
    Credits: NASA and J. Olmstead (STScI)
    • The Stellar Lifecycle
    Seeing more stars will mean more insight into their lifecycle. Webb will provide new views of the full range of stages in a star’s life, from formation to death.
    “Right now we are effectively limited to studying star formation in our own Milky Way galaxy, but with Webb’s infrared capabilities we can see through the dusty cocoons that shelter forming protostars in other galaxies—like Andromeda, which is more metal-rich—and see how stars form in a very different environment,” Weisz says.

    Astronomer Martha Boyer, also on this observing program team, is interested in the insights Webb will provide toward the end of the stellar lifecycle, when stars become bloated, red, and dusty.
    “NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope showed us that dusty, evolved stars exist even in very primitive galaxies where they weren’t expected, and now with Webb we will be able to characterize them and learn how our models of the star lifecycle line up with real observations,” says Boyer, an instrument scientist on Webb’s Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) team at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
    • The Early Universe via the Local Neighborhood
    Resolving and studying individual stars is necessary for understanding the bigger picture of how galaxies formed and function. Astronomers then can ask even bigger questions of how galaxies have evolved over time and space, from the distant, early universe to the Local Group—a collection of more than 20 nearby galaxies to which our galaxy belongs. Weisz explains that even though this observing program will be looking locally, there is evidence of the early universe to be discovered.

    “We will have Webb study a nearby, ultra-faint dwarf galaxy, a remnant of the first seed-galaxies to form in the universe, some of which eventually merged to form larger galaxies like the Milky Way,” Weisz says. “At great distances these types of galaxies are too faint for even Webb to see directly, but small, local dwarf galaxies will show us what they were like billions of years ago.”

    “We really need to understand the local universe in order to understand all of the universe,” Boyer says. “The Local Group of galaxies are a sort of laboratory, where we can study galaxies in detail—every single component. In distant galaxies we can’t resolve much detail, so we don’t know exactly what’s going on. A major step towards understanding distant or early galaxies is to study this collection of galaxies that are within our reach.”

    As the Webb mission progresses, Boyer and Weisz expect that astronomers will use the tools their team develops in unexpected ways. They emphasize that developing the program was an effort of the entire local-universe astronomy community, and they plan to continue that collaboration once the data come in. Their observing program team plans to host a workshop to go over the results of the program with other astronomers and tweak the software they’ve developed, all with the goal of assisting members of the astronomy community in applying for time to use Webb for their research.


    “I think that is really important—the idea of working together to achieve big science, as opposed to a lot of us trying to compete,” Weisz says.

    The James Webb Space Telescope will be the world's premier space science observatory when it launches in 2021. Webb will solve mysteries in our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

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    • NASA Statement on James Webb Space Telescope Launch Readiness
    NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which will be the premier observatory of the next decade, remains on schedule for a launch readiness date no earlier than Oct. 31, 2021.

    James Webb will ship to the launch site in August with little to no schedule margin; launch processing will take two months. The observatory has completed all the post-environmental testing deployments, and it is in its final integration and folding stages. Final stow, closeout, and pack and ship are imminent. We are working closely with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace on establishing the launch date. We will launch approximately four months after the first launch of the Ariane 5 this year, which is scheduled for late July. Webb has no launch date constraints; hence, it can launch almost any day of the year.

    Webb will study every phase in the history of our universe, including the first luminous glows after the creation of the cosmos, the formation of solar systems capable of supporting life on planets like Earth, and the evolution of our own solar system.

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    An honest question.
    With what appears to be some type of disclosure happening, regardless of its nature or agenda, is it now a moot issue to explore with such an admittedly marvelous instrument?
    Have things progressed too far too fast to make the discoveries meaningful?
    Are there far more meaningful discoveries imminent?
    And if so, don’t they know it?
    And if so, why the pretense of the telescope?

    Analogous to SETI searching for radio waves....
    Just wondering out loud.

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    Quote Posted by pabranno (here)
    An honest question.
    With what appears to be some type of disclosure happening, regardless of its nature or agenda, is it now a moot issue to explore with such an admittedly marvelous instrument?
    Have things progressed too far too fast to make the discoveries meaningful?
    Are there far more meaningful discoveries imminent?
    And if so, don’t they know it?
    And if so, why the pretense of the telescope?

    Analogous to SETI searching for radio waves....
    Just wondering out loud.

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    Never ever trust authorities claiming to share their version of "disclosure" and never assume you will get the real full (big) picture ever!


    That would be really super naive ... All angles that can speed up global awareness & public interest showing much more details of our mysterious Universe like multiple Dyson Spheres
    • Would be cool if they can confirm there IS a "water planet" covered totally with water near Sirius B
    • Scientists Can’t Explain What Huge Object Is Blocking The Light From This Distant Star
    • Earth-Sized ExoPlanet in the Habitable Zone of a Star ... Should be high on the list of targets for the brand new James Webb Telescope! (and many other ExoPlanets).
    • ... and so so many more unexplained mysteries in space!
    Do not confuse "UAP/UFO Disclosure" with "Full Alien Disclosure" they are 2 different things for a reason!

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    I hear you John. Appreciate the response and clarification🙂

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