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Orbiting far beyond Earth’s moon, Webb’s sensitive instruments will detect infrared radiation from Solar System planets, exoplanets, stars, nebulae, and galaxies. These observations will help us to better understand the early universe, how galaxies and stars change over time, and the characteristics of other worlds.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a class="btn" href="/science/the-observatory" target="_self">More About the Webb Mission</a></p> <div class="img-desc__wrapper" data-module-dynamic="img-desc"> <div class="img-desc__image"> <div class="centered"> <figure class="captioned-img image no-lightbox"><img alt="Diagram explains the Webb Space Telescope’s 6.5-meter-mirror size, range of infrared light that it can see, and its location with respect to the Earth and the Sun at the second Lagrange point. Select View Description for more details." class="embedded-img lazyload" data-img-title="About the James Webb Space Telescope" data-lazy-srcset="" height="1080" src="/files/live/sites/webb/files/home/about/_images/Webb-About-Us-Infographic%402x.jpg" width="2427" /> <figcaption>James Webb Space Telescope wavelength range, mirror size, and location specs. <a href="/contents/media/images/4168-Image" target="_self">Get the full telescope infographic.</a> <em>Credit: NASA, E. Wheatley (STScI).</em></figcaption> </figure> </div> </div> <div class="img-desc__title">About the James Webb Space Telescope</div> <div class="img-desc__body"> <p>In the top right of the diagram is the title “James Webb Space Telescope.”</p> <h3 data-name="h3-illustration-of-the-telescope" id="h3-CK-813d133a-95ac-416d-bf5b-2564c02290e7">Illustration of the Telescope</h3> <p>In the middle of the image is an illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope at an angle, primarily from its right (or starboard) side. This view shows a very small portion of the bottom of the telescope’s multi-layered sunshield, which appears pink on the bottommost layer and is roughly shaped like an oblong hexagon. Above that, all of the telescope’s primary mirror is visible. Its height is about half the width of its pink and gray sunshield. The primary mirror is made up of 18 hexagonal segments that are coated in gold. In front of the primary mirror are three thin, medium gray poles, known as mirror support struts. They end in a point and extend to the front, or bow, of the telescope, but do not go beyond its sunshield.</p> <h3 data-name="h3-location" id="h3-CK-c4f677e8-5ad3-4c55-a51b-3009a934bdaf">Location</h3> <p>To the left of the telescope is a box that has the headline “Location” inside, with supportive text: From its orbit at Lagrange Point 2 (L2), nearly one million miles from Earth, Webb has a relatively unobstructed view of the universe.</p> <p>Below this is a graphic of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, the Moon’s orbit around Earth, and Webb Space Telescope’s orbit around L2. There are yellow circles that represent the Sun, Earth, Moon, and L2. The orbits of the Earth around the Sun, Moon around the Earth, and Webb Space Telescope around L2 are represented by yellow ellipses. Earth’s orbit around the Sun is the largest, taking up the majority of the width of this section of the graphic as a horizontal ellipse. The Moon’s orbit around Earth is far smaller, appearing to the right as a horizontal ellipse. Webb’s orbit at L2 is represented by a vertical elliptical to the right of the Earth and Moon.</p> <h3 data-name="h3-mirror-size" id="h3-CK-cbdf9f08-cd5f-4d89-8afe-c3ca4ce991cd">Mirror Size</h3> <p>To the right of the picture of the Webb Space Telescope is another box that has the headline “Mirror Size” inside. Underneath this headline is a caption that says: Webb’s large, segmented primary mirror gives it unprecedented light-gathering ability.</p> <p>Below this caption are three line-art drawings. The first, toward the left boundary of the box, is a yellow outline of a person in a spacesuit. Above it is a description of the person’s height that says “6-ft person, 1.8 meters.” The second, toward the middle, is a yellow circle slightly larger than the person, with a second, far smaller yellow circle at its center. It is labeled “Hubble Mirror.” Above it are the labels “2.4 m, 4.5 m squared.” The third yellow illustration, toward the right of the box, shows each of Webb’s 18 mirror segments, also in yellow outlines. Above the image are the labels “6.5 m, 25 m squared.”</p> <h3 data-name="h3-wavelength-range" id="h3-CK-ba88e160-01bc-4d17-87f1-0b5f5aff9bc4">Wavelength Range</h3> <p>At the bottom of the diagram is a section headlined “Wavelength Range.” There is a white line that divides it and the text: Webb detects light wavelengths from visible red to mid-infrared. Underneath this is the electromagnetic spectrum, ranging from ultraviolet light to far-infrared light.</p> <p>At the far left are several vertical bars going from gray to white, leading up to a box that says “Ultraviolet.” To the right of this box is a set of colored vertical bars that represent purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. To the right of the red bar is another box that says “Near-infrared,” “Mid-infrared,” and “Far-infrared,” evenly spaced across the long box. To the right of this box is another set of vertical bars that start at an opaque white and slowly become more transparent.</p> <p>Above this electromagnetic spectrum, specifically above the middle of the orange and red bars all the way to the middle of the space between the words “Mid-infrared” and “Far-infrared” is a label that says “600 to 28,500 nm,” signifying that Webb is able to observe between those wavelengths, which is the end of the visible light range (approximately red) to before the far-infrared range.</p> </div> </div> <script>hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad();</script> </div></section><section id="section-3d73c243-aec8-4cf6-87a8-b2b44304a698" data-name="section-about-the-science" class="section-row light-background-outreach-light-grey" > <div class="component-block container-fluid"> <div class="row"> <div class="section-header col-xs-12 text-center"> <h2 id="h2-1e027b68-f53e-4d0c-b83c-191ac42da34f" data-name="h2-about-the-science" class="section-header__title" 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In addition to the United States, 13 countries are involved in building the Webb telescope: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Additional member states in Europe also contribute to the <a href="https://www.esa.int/ESA" target="_blank" title="European Space Agency homepage">European Space Agency (ESA)</a>. <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/" target="_blank" title="NASA homepage">NASA</a> is the lead partner on the project, working in conjunction with ESA and the <a href="http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/Default.asp" target="_blank" title="Canadian Space Agency homepage">Canadian Space Agency (CSA)</a>.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="component-block container-fluid"> <p style="text-align: center;">As the lead agency, NASA has overall responsibility for the <a href="https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/" target="_blank" title="NASA's Webb telescope mission page">Webb mission</a>.  ESA’s contributions to JWST include the <a href="https://jwst.nasa.gov/nirspec.html" target="_blank" title="NASA's NIRSpec science instrument page">Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec)</a>, the <a href="https://jwst.nasa.gov/miri.html" target="_blank" title="NASA's MIRI science instrument page">Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI)</a> Optics Assembly, and the Ariane 5 Launch Vehicle. CSA’s contributions to Webb include the <a href="https://jwst.nasa.gov/fgs.html" target="_blank" title="NASA's FGS and NIRISS science instrument page">Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS)</a> and the <a href="https://jwst.nasa.gov/fgs.html" target="_blank" title="NASA's FGS and NIRISS science instrument page">Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS)</a>.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a class="btn" href="/other-webb-sites" target="_self">More About Our Partnerships</a></p> <script>hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad();</script> </div></section><section id="section-7b66af9d-ffbe-4939-9c4d-7b15c130f4cd" data-name="section-about-the-space-telescope-science-institute" class="section-row light-background-outreach-light-grey" > <div class="component-block container-fluid"> <div class="row"> <div class="section-header col-xs-12 text-center"> <h2 id="h2-c664d9a5-f90b-4b96-a3f9-dcd343cef98d" data-name="h2-about-the-space-telescope-science-institute" class="section-header__title" data-include-in-navigation="true"> About the Space Telescope Science Institute</h2> <p>The mission of the <a href="http://www.stsci.edu/" target="_blank" title="STScI homepage">Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)</a> is to help humanity explore the universe with advanced space telescopes and ever-growing data archives. STScI is a multi-mission science operations center for NASA’s flagship observatories and a world-class astronomical research center.<br /> <br /> Established in 1981, the institute has developed and executed the science and mission operations for the <a href="https://www.stsci.edu/hst" target="_blank" title="HST">Hubble Space Telescope</a> since its launch in 1990 and will conduct the science and mission operations for the <a href="https://www.stsci.edu/jwst" target="_blank" title="JWST">James Webb Space Telescope</a>. The institute will also be the science operations center for the <a href="https://www.stsci.edu/roman" target="_blank" title="Roman Space Telescope">Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope</a>, formerly known as the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, launching in the mid-2020s.<br /> <br /> The institute also supports other astronomy programs and its science staff conducts world-class scientific research. STScI is the home of the <a href="http://archive.stsci.edu/" target="_blank" title="MAST website (STScI)">Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST)</a>, where the data of over 20 astronomical missions is curated and disseminated for use by the global astronomy community. 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