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In the moments when the famous Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is struggling with many technical problems and we eagerly await the service mission, which he will udahniti astronauts still an occasional year of life, NASA has largely working on his deputies.
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) with the equivalent classical višezrcalnim 6.5 m mirror is scheduled to launch the 2012th year. He will stay in the L2 point (Langrangeova point), nearly two million kilometers away from Earth, where the Earth and the Sun's gravity "reversed". It is a complete examination of the impact area of the space on the first segment of the telescope mirror. The results are encouraging and it seems that designers are so good job! Once this is found in space telescope will have to be significantly better than the HST's. Beyond the reach of JWST mission will service the entire decade of the Earth to send stunning shots of distant galaxies. It is possible that we will for the first time in the history of civilization have a device whose capabilities are observations of celestial objects larger than the entire universe. We will be able to see "further" from the end of the space-time!
European new generation ELT telescope
At a time when the telescope is already retired, around 2030th year could make it inherit mammoth 100-meter telescope - but at one pole of the moon! Planned return of humans to the moon and build a permanent scientific research base will certainly allow the construction of large astronomical observatories.
Persistent fever, absence of atmosphere and any kind of pollution, cocoa, and opsttrukcije agents and a wealth of chemical compounds, the availability of solar energy, gravity is much smaller and new technology will enable the construction of liquid metal mirror diameter of about one hundred meters. Today's largest telescopes on Earth have a diameter of "only" about ten feet!
Building telescopes on the moon was technologically less demanding than the same of such construction on Earth (if we ignore the logistics)
It should be noted that the project is maintained by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope ELT assumed 42metarskog making telescopes located on Earth. It is a telescope several times larger than today's largest telescopes in the world and requires a completely new space, building technologies. One of the leaders prjekta, Dr. Andreas Käufer believes that it is achievable in the next ten years. "We want to do something really (too) great," said Käufer. Look to the limits of the universe, discover the forms of matter that existed in the first moments of its creation, to find traces of other civilizations on extrasolar planets, and finally get an unambiguous answer to the question, how large and old universe.
JWST model at actual size
Besides this, the European astronomers think about the moon pandamu mammoth telescopes - but on Earth! With a diameter lens (mirror) of the 100m telescope that would be more powerful than any existing telescope in the world together!
Limit the construction and use of such instruments is now still in the domain of science fiction. But it is certain that the new "big eye" astronomy will soon come under the starry sky, look further and see more ..
Marino Tumpić
