Science Matters: Understanding The James Webb Space Telescope
The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss
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How the James Webb Space Telescope Looks at Red Shift
The hobble space telescope is able as sensitive to radiation from about a tenth of a micron to about two and a half microns, spanding thiat full range in a sense. We the jameswebb space telescope is designed to look back to the period when the first objects, the first stars in galaxies, formed,. And that means we're looking at light that's red shifted by a factor of 16 to 21 or so compared to the frequency of light that was emitted when the objects first formed.
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