James Webb has reached its final destination and is about to take a picture of 13.7 billion years...

Thank you my space exploration advocate friend Sgt (Join to see) for making us aware that James Webb has reached its final destination and is about to take a picture of 13.7 billion years.
Soundtrack hopeful for this mission :-)


David Bowie – Space Oddity (Official Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo
FYI SGT Mary G. SGT Tiffanie G. MSgt Gloria Vance MSG Greg Kelly 1SG Joseph Dartey Sgt Albert Castro 1SG Dan Capri CPL Douglas Chrysler PO1 Howard Barnes SSG Samuel Kermon PO3 Charles Streich CSM Charles Hayden PO3 Lynn Spalding Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.PO2 (Join to see) SGT Steve McFarland CPL Ronald Keyes Jr SGT Denny Espinosa

The Webb telescope is different from Hubble not only because it is not in orbit around Earth, but rather orbits the sun at the LaGrange point where it is out of the gravitational influence of Earth… but it is also different because it takes photos in the infrared range which will allow it to see farther back in time than Hubble, which takes photos in the visible light spectrum.

The second part is BIG. We know that the farther stars are from us, the faster they are moving away up to the point where they are receding faster than the speed of light in which case we can no longer see them. They still exist but we can’t see them so from our perspective they have gone past the edge of the observable Universe and all we can know is what we can observe. It’s not that the speed of light has increased, but rather space itself is growing and spreading galaxies apart — like raisins in a loaf of bread move away from each other as the loaf of bread rises and expands while being baked.

And just as the Doppler effect works on sound where the sound frequency of trains moving increase in frequency as they get closer and the get lower as they pass, light from stars moving away from us gets red shifted to a lower frequency due to the star’s speed moving away.

The Hubble telescope can see Red, but it can’t see in Infrared, which is not able to be seen by the human eye because it is too low in frequency for our eyes to detect it. The Web telescope can see Infrared frequencies so it is able to see stars that are moving away faster as their light is red shifted lower, and thus it is able to look back farther in time from the Big Bang.

Outstanding!