Notes &
Top 5 Awesome Things About the Webb Telescope (via vlogbrothers)
“Increasing the awesome”.
Update from NASAWatch:
A Carnegie astronomer notes: “While brimming with enthusiasm, this video makes a major error by claiming that JWST will be able “to see the Earth” if it was 25 light-years away. Sadly, this is not true. Here is what the JWST web page states is the true capability of JWST: “Webb can only see large planets orbiting at relatively large distances from the parent star. To see small Earth-like planets, which are billions of time fainter than their parent star, a space telescope capable of seeing at even higher angular resolution will be required. NASA is studying such a space mission, the Terrestrial Planet Finder.” This quote is from the JWST web page located at: http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/faq.html#basic JWST will do fantastic science, but if someone says that it will do things that are impossible for it to do, the entire project is likely to suffer.
