Expanding Our Imagination

In an insatiable effort to understand why we are here; we draw upon the imagination, knowledge, and experience of the great minds that lived in the generations before us and mix it with our own imaginations to develop better ways to explore the things in the world around us. As a result of imagination in the last few decades this insatiable quest now encompasses a secret doorway to the universe with the development of space telescopes that act as time machines to tap into our past.

In 2014 the latest results of man's imagination will be revealed in the James Webb telescope that will set out to explore this colossal vineyard of galaxies we call our universe. The main objective is to travel back in time as it were to discover our origin, and to get a better understanding of how the universe formed. In other words, take a look at the universe in reverse by looking back nearly 13.7 billion years to what has been imagined to be the beginning. The James Webb telescope will be able to peer further back in time with greater clarity than its current predecessor, the Hubble telescope. It is expected to look back within 180,000 years of the big band and can be compared to a 70 year old person looking back in time and seeing themselves as an 11 month old toddler. Any galaxies it finds out there will be newborn infants. With the Webb telescope mankind will boldly see what no man has seen before.

Lean More about the James Webb Telescope:

Traveling Back In Time: Launch 2014 man's insatiable guest to the stars will take on a whole new meaning when the James Webb Telescope is launched in 2014.
http://webbtelescope.org/webb_telescope/

The End of the Dark Ages: First Light and Reionization seeks to identify the first bright objects that formed in the early Universe, and follow the ionization history.
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/firstlight.html

Assembly of Galaxies will determine how galaxies and dark matter, including gas, stars, metals, physical structures (like spiral arms) and active nuclei evolved to the present day.
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/galaxies.html

The Birth of Stars and Protoplanetary Systems focuses on the birth and early development of stars and the formation of planets.
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/birth.html

Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life studies the physical and chemical properties of solar systems (including our own) and where the building blocks of life may be present.
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/origins.html