NASA has provided the first glimpse of what a new space telescope that monitors infrared and ultraviolet light will look like. It can search for habitable Earth-like exoplanets and signs of life on them. It will be known as the Habitable Worlds Observatory.
According to Space, NASA is considering the project as an astrophysics mission. To fulfill its mission of searching for life, the Habitable Worlds Observatory will need to be an ultra-stable telescope with a powerful instrument for imaging things like rocky planets. Close to bright objects such as stars.
Dubbed the Decadal Survey, the National Academies of Sciences document also indicated that NASA should use small missions to develop X-ray and far-infrared observation technologies that might be used in two large space telescope missions, following which it should join the habitable worlds. . Observatory.
The Habitable Worlds Observatory, like JWST, will float regarding a million miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth in front of the sun, at a location known as Earth-sun Lagrange point 2, or L2. But unlike its predecessor, the future observatory will one day benefit from robotic promotions.
