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What’s the James Webb telescope searching for?

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Exploring Future Telescopes

Future telescope number one would be called hab x, which is the habitable x planet observatory. It's like umbrella that floats alongside the telescope, literally. We want to put up a giant, specially shaped screen called star shade. The web can see all sorts of cool planets, typically they'll be around dimmer stars. But finding another earth around a star like our sun would be a lot harder because starslike our sun are just so bright. So if we want to go out and search for the earth twin, we need to go to the next level, to a different kind of telescope.

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