FARGO — The James Webb Telescope, NASA's successor to the hugely successful Hubble Telescope, has reached it's permanent position, a gravitationally stable orbit roughly one million miles from Earth in a location where it will not be negatively impacted by sunlight (or moonlight) and so be able to scan deep space using its infrared light technology.
The plan is for this new telescope to penetrate deep space to see objects farther away than anything seen before. Einsteinian physics tells us that anything so distant will be moving away from us, stretching its light into longer wavelengths, which is why the James Webb Telescope will be using infrared light technology. For the first time, we will be able to see the first galaxies that formed shortly after what we know as the beginning of time. For the next few months, the instruments on the telescope will be calibrated and tested. The first images are likely to come our way this summer.
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