NASA unveils plan for next-gen telescope to search space for signs of life: reports - Fox News

NASA has reportedly shed airy connected a caller program to physique a successor to the James Webb Space Telescope, 

The Habitable Worlds Observatory was announced Monday astatine the latest American Astronomical Society meeting, and its extremity is searching for signs of beingness connected habitable exoplanets.

Space.com said connected Friday that the observatory volition request a almighty coronograph, which is an instrumentality that allows scientists to survey faint objects. 

Mark Clampin, the manager of NASA's astrophysics division, reportedly said that the bureau would attack the task arsenic if it faced a strict motorboat window, gathering connected erstwhile exertion utilized for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arsenic good arsenic Webb.

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FILE - In this April 13, 2017, photograph provided by NASA, technicians assistance the reflector of the James Webb Space Telescope utilizing a crane astatine the Goddard Space Flight Center successful Greenbelt, Maryland. (Laura Betz/NASA via AP, File)

The Habitable World Observatory would beryllium sent to a constituent – known arsenic L2, oregon the 2nd Lagrange Point – a cardinal miles distant from the Earth and other the sun. 

"We're besides going to program this ngo from time 1 to beryllium serviceable," Clampin said, noting that successful 10 to 15 years companies could bash "straightforward robotic servicing" there. 

An astronaut aboard the abstraction shuttle Atlantis captured this representation of the Hubble Space Telescope connected May 19, 2009. (NASA)

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"It gives america flexibility, due to the fact that it means we don't needfully person to deed each of the subject goals the archetypal time," helium told attendees. Being capable to work the observatory tin widen the beingness of its mission.

The bureau volition reportedly crook to the commercialized assemblage for the motorboat vehicle. 

NASA  Administrator Bill Nelson speaks during a sojourn to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center connected Nov. 5, 2021, successful Greenbelt, Maryland.  (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Notably, with this observatory, NASA is pursuing done connected the U.S. National Academies’ latest decadal survey, which called for NASA to revive the "Great Observatories" program. 

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According to Science, the study said that a six-meter telescope delicate to ultraviolet, optical and near-infrared wavelengths could people the commencement of that effort.