Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ...
by Dopameaner on Thursday January 12, 2023 @09:35PM
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I always wondered if we could somehow get a James webb telescope revolving around all planets of our solar system in the next 1000 years. That should give us pretty awesome visuals.
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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ...
by eru on Thursday January 12, 2023 @10:05PM
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Huh, why would you want to do that?
If you have the resources to spare, you can do much better than replicating James Webb style telescopes. See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens
Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ...
by positr0n on Thursday January 12, 2023 @10:27PM
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What would be the benefit of the telescope orbiting other planets than earth?
Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ...
by midoridensha on Friday January 13, 2023 @12:36AM
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I can't imagine any, besides redundancy and more observation time.
Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ...
by throwawaymaths on Friday January 13, 2023 @02:42AM
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Interferometry.
Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ...
by mnw21cam on Friday January 13, 2023 @07:02AM
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There's definitely a benefit to placing a decent telescope outside the asteroid belt. From Earth, we get a lot of light reflected from the Sun from dust orbiting somewhere between Earth and 2 AU from the Sun, which pollutes our space images - it's called the Zodiacal Light [0]. A telescope outside this light pollution would be able to see faint objects much more clearly and easily than Webb.
Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ...
by Cthulhu_ on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:44AM
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I want to venture that 1000 years is pessimistic. I just hope governments or private entities open up their wallets to build and launch more and better telescopes.
I'm reading the whole JWST project is estimated to cost $10 billion. That's about 4.4 overpriced Twitters, 77 US Department of Defense budgets (just for 2023), and 11.7 Facebook annual revenues.
We have the technology and the means, what's lacking now is the will.