NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has only been operational for just over a year, but this isn’t stopping the world’s biggest space agency from discussing the next big space telescope that could serve as JWST’s successor sometime in the future. Enter the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO), which was first proposed as NASA’s next flagship … Continue reading 'Planning is Underway for NASA’s Next Big Flagship Space Telescope'
for imaging gaseous exoplanets, with Roman slated to launch onboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy sometime in 2027.is its external counterpart. While no current space telescopes employ starshades, development models designed and built by NASA would detach from a future space telescope and unfurl at a certain distance in front of it, acting like a literal shade to block out starlight from a distant star, with the goal of revealing the exoplanets in orbit.
Dr. Siegler noted that NASA has chosen the coronagraph path for HWO, as indicated by its potential use on the upcoming Roman Space Telescope. Per the Decadal Survey, HWO is slated to launch sometime in the late 2030s or early 2040s with the observing time planned to be split between studying exoplanets and common astrophysics.
What new discoveries will the HWO reveal about where we can find life beyond Earth in the coming years and decades? Only time will tell, and this is why we science!
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