jwst: p lanets to c osmology m ario l ivio s pace t elescope s cience i nstitute
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The James Webb Space TelescopeThe JWST sunshield - full scale membrane
Hardware progressing: Sunshield full-scale membrane
Spitzer, 90,000s per band(GOODS collaboration)
1’x1’ region in the UDF – 3.5 to 5.8 μm
JWST, 1000s per band (simulated)
Razor sharp vision of early universe
Implications for: Pop III star clusters?, reionization, cosmic star formation history, structure formation, galaxy evolution
The James Webb Space TelescopeJWST will see planets around other stars
Extrasolar planets:habitable zone
JWST: spectroscopy and photometry of transiting exoplanets
Temperature-pressure profiles, molecular species, moons