JWST:PLANETS TO COSMOLOGY

MARIO LIVIOSPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE

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Hardware progressing:Mirror in final stages of testing

The James Webb Space TelescopeThe JWST sunshield - full scale membrane

Hardware progressing: Sunshield full-scale membrane

JWST will see the very first galaxies

Hubble UDF

Simulated JWST

Spitzer, 90,000s per band(GOODS collaboration)

1’x1’ region in the UDF – 3.5 to 5.8 μm

JWST, 1000s per band (simulated)

Razor sharp vision of early universe

Implications for: Pop III star clusters?, reionization, cosmic star formation history, structure formation, galaxy evolution

The James Webb Space TelescopeJWST will see planets around other stars

Extrasolar planets:habitable zone

Spectrum of a knownlife-bearing planet

JWST: spectroscopy and photometry of transiting exoplanets

Temperature-pressure profiles, molecular species, moons

Discovery of: Water Worlds, necessary

ingredients for life