Hubble and its follower

The Hubble telescope which is circling around the earth since 1990,is now at the end of his mission in space. The telescope a result of the of Nasa and Esa working together in the 80ies,was and still is a big help for scientists all over the world.It took pictures of galaxies,its birth and disappearances as well as of stars which are millions of light-years away.It has shown astronauts and us lots of new and fascinating things about our universe and has provided new discoveries.But now Hubble is coming to the end of his life and the question is: What comes next?

The follower of the Hubble telescope is already under construction and is expected to start in the year 2013. Its name is James Webb telecope (named after Nasa head during the Apollo era).The difference between Hubble and James Webb is the fact that the Webb telescope circles around the earth in a distance ofone and a half million kilommeters.It will be much bigger and its primary mirror is going to be 7 times lager than Hubble’s. In addition the James Webb will be able to discover the universe in infrared spectrum. In that way it gives us the possibility to see young stars,new planets and the first galaxies wich had been arised after the big explosion.The James Webb telescope will allow us a look in the deepest areas of the universe,which humans eyes have never seen before. And now we are looking forward to the next news from space coming in 2013.