Virgin Hubble
Chad Webb
I would imagine that the James Webb was built at least in part utilizing the prior data and experience they had from making and using the Hubble… Aka the Hubble walked so the James Webb could run.
Plus this new fella works mainly in the infrared, there are so many more photons with a lower energy level than with visible light.
As the energy/frequency levels go up, the number of photons decrease.
The drop between levels can be so dramatic, that around the turn of the 20th century physicists coined a term for the shift to the next level beyond visible light in the opposite direction to infrared - The Ultraviolet Catastrophe.
Aaand the JWST was hit by a little asteroid.
Did you know the company that made the mirror for the Hubble telescope messed up and whenever the other company that was contracted to make the backup mirror want it to compare their mirrors to make sure they’re the same. The main company went nah. My mirror is perfect. The mirror wasn’t perfect so cute! First images came back from hubble. They were blurry so on one of the space shuttle missions they went up in pretty much added glasses to Hubble later on the removed because better equipment was put into Hubble to correct it digitally
The old man Simpson “I used to be it: then they changed what ‘it’ was” meme template would probably be more fitting tbh
