NASA NASA developed under the leadership James Webb Space Telescope, in pursuit of important discoveries exists.
10 billion dollars James Webb Space Telescope (James Webb Space Telescope), a cargo rocket signed long ago by the European Space Agency ESA Ariane 5 It was launched into space from the Guyana Space Center based in Kourou, French Guiana. A infrared space telescope with a short name JWSTIt is of great importance that it will shape our perspective on the world of science and the universe. The main scientific goal of JWST will be to observe very distant objects in the universe that other fundamental devices or Hubble cannot see.
JWST, the result of 30 years of effort, as a joint project of 15 different states, European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency under the leadership of NASA, is the result of exoplanets up to 5 thousand (exoplanet) on a potential alien life (like a microorganism) can be detected. The first thing that the James Webb Space Telescope will look for is as far as it has been announced. methane gas will be. Because between methane gas and potential living life, ancient living fossils etc. there is an important link.
Making a statement on the subject, University of California-based astrophysicist Joshua Krissansen-Totton said, “methane gas is the only biological signature that JWST can easily detect in distant atmospheres.” says. It is considered very difficult for JWST to discover oxygen directly. Researchers report that they can focus on the discovery of life on certain exoplanets through the detection of methane gas.
JWST, which has the goal of providing a big deal to scientists with its ability to detect gas outlets on exoplanets, will not be able to provide pinpoint precise results. Because even if the observed exoplanets do indeed contain life, they may not be producing enough gas to accumulate and measure in their atmospheres. In this respect, researchers have a long process ahead of them.
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