Despite Webb's young age, NASA has already unveiled plans for its big successor, a new telescope called the Habitable Worlds Observatory.
has only been active for six months, but NASA is already planning a successor to the multi-billion-dollar observatory. The Habitable Worlds Observatory won’t be the first telescope that NASA launches after Webb, as the Nancy Grace Roman Observatory is already set for a 2027 launch. Still, it will continue NASA’s mission to find life on alien planets.
The Habitable Worlds Observatory is part of an initiative to reboot NASA’s Great Observatories program, which launched the Hubble space telescope and several others throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. The proposal was part of a report that said an $11 billion, 6-meter telescope that could detect signs of life on 25 nearby planets should kickstart the rebooted program.NASA shared news of the proposal at this year’s American Astronomical Society Meeting, which took place in early January.
The goal of the new telescope is to send it to a point known as the second Lagrange Point, a point known as L2. This region of space is located a million miles from Earth and is opposite the sun. The Lagrange Points are points in space where the gravity from the Earth and the sun cancel each other out, allowing the Habitable Worlds Observatory to float idly in space.which could help combat climate change, would also rely on these Lagrange Points because of their more subdued gravity.
But, it is intriguing to see NASA already looking forward to its next big successor to the James Webb, especially as the newer telescope continues to deliver shocking revelations about the space beyond our planet’s atmosphere, including details about the early universe.
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