Behold: the successor to the James Webb.
It will be called the Habitable World Observatory.NASA has revealed details about the multi-billion successor to its groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope — a project tasked with searching for life on Earth-like planets as soon as the early 2040s., NASA’s astrophysics division director Mark Clampin revealed that outside of a working name — the spacecraft will be called the Habitable World Observatory — most of the details still have to be ironed out.
But it's a momentous occasion nonetheless, revealing a tantalizing vision for the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life.The observatory will be designed from the ground up to be upgradeable by robots, meaning future spacecraft could visit it to upgrade or repair its key components.Lagrange Point around the SunThe observatory won't be the next multi-billion dollar telescope NASA launches in the upcoming years.
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