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Weather delays launch of NASA's newest space telescope set to search for life's key ingredients


Published on 2025-03-11 01:02:35 - CNN
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  • Weather has delayed NASA's launch of the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun's mysteries.

NASA's latest endeavor in space exploration involves the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is set to investigate the origins of the universe and search for signs of life through the detection of key ingredients like water, oxygen, and organic compounds on exoplanets. Scheduled for launch on December 25, 2021, from the Guyanese Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana, the JWST will be the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built, with a primary mirror over 21 feet in diameter, significantly larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's. This telescope will not only look back to within a few hundred million years of the Big Bang but also study every phase of cosmic history, from the formation of stars and galaxies to the potential for life on other planets. The JWST's advanced infrared capabilities will allow it to peer through cosmic dust clouds, revealing details about star formation and the atmospheres of distant exoplanets, potentially identifying biosignatures that could indicate life.

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