© Illustration: NASA GSFC, CIL, Adriana Manrique Gutierrez
Astronomers are searching for bio- and techno-signatures in the atmospheres of exoplanets.
Now, 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, a telescope is starting to work that can see further into space than any observatory in human history: the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), named after a former NASA administrator. This high-performance instrument from the American and European space agencies NASA and ESA will discover and research objects that are even fainter than was previously possible. It was launched on December 25, 2021 from the Kourou Cosmodrome in French Guiana on a European Ariane 5 rocket. At the…
