Science Matters: Understanding The James Webb Space Telescope
The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss
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The Difference Between the Ae, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hobblo Space Telescope
As we start out the big bang and go forward in time, the cosmos gets bigger. As the universe expandsa the wave length of radiation expands with it. You've often heard of the term red shift - but there is a relationship between that ratio and the size of the universe at the time light was emitted from some object. The james webb space telescope is designed to be able to look at the first stars, the first objects forming in the universe. That's the point where more or less, matter became neutral and radiation could propagate throughout the universe.
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