With the James Webb Telescope, will we learn the answer to age-old questions about the existence of extraterrestrial life forms, other life forms, intelligent other living beings, other civilisations operating on exoplanets billions of light years away, located in other planetary systems, in other constellations, other stellar constellations, located in other galaxies, galactic nebulae, etc.?
For centuries, man has been searching for an answer to the question of whether life originated and developed only on planet Earth, or whether it originated beyond Earth and came to Earth, e.g. whether life originated and developed only on planet Earth, whether it originated beyond Earth and came to Earth, e.g. in the form of simple microorganisms in the rocks of meteorites falling to Earth, whether it also developed in many other places in the Universe, whether life also developed, used to function and/or still functions, whether other forms of life developed, whether other intelligent life forms developed, whether these other intelligent life forms have created other civilisations on other exoplanets many millions of light years distant, located in other planetary systems, in other constellations, other star constellations, located in other galaxies, galactic nebulae, etc.? ? For several decades now, as man has been building ever more perfect space telescopes and listening for sounds from distant corners of the Universe, the possibilities of answering these questions have been gradually increasing. On the one hand, cosmologists, astronomers, researchers into astrophysics, the biosphere of the cosmos, etc., are trying to estimate the number of exoplanets which are at a similar distance from their suns as the planet Earth, have a sufficiently abundant amount of various elements and chemical compounds, and have the potential for the emergence of at least simple forms of life. On the other hand, it has still not been possible to hear a sound from space that would be evidence of the existence of another civilisation. It has still not been possible to photograph exoplanets millions of light years away in such a way, with sufficiently close-ups in the photographs, that traces of other life forms can be seen. But technological advances in the possibilities of space exploration and research are continuing relentlessly. Recently, the most advanced space telescope to date, called the James Webb telescope, was placed in Earth's orbit. The James Webb Telescope is currently the most perfect device ever created by man to photograph distant cosmic objects, distant galaxies, constellations, planetary systems and also exoplanets, millions and billions of light years away. This telescope is superior to the previously used Hubble Telescope for infrared observations. The James Webb Space Telescope was built between 2007 and 2021 a space telescope for observing and taking pictures of distant space objects mainly in the infrared. In a sense (observing the Cosmos only in the infrared range), the James Webb Space Telescope is intended to be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. Overseen and largely funded by NASA, the project was developed in collaboration with ESA and the CSA. With the James Webb Telescope, it is possible to photograph and study exoplanets located in other planetary systems, in other constellations and to photograph distant galaxies up to 13 billion light years away from Earth. As a result, the James Webb Telescope is already being described as a kind of cosmic time machine, as it takes pictures of galaxies billions of light years away, the photographed image of which shows these galaxies as they looked those billions of years ago. The James Webb Space Telescope was placed into Earth's orbit at the end of 2021, and to date has photographed many cosmic objects that were previously virtually invisible to humans in any way. The date for the launch of this telescope has been postponed several times since 2007, because due to the global financial crisis of 2008 and other economic issues, there was not enough money to complete the project in the previous years before 2021. The cost of building the James Webb Space Telescope was estimated to be around USD 10 billion. In view of the above, the James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful telescope ever built by man to be placed in Earth's orbit and the most perfect device for taking photographs of space objects billions of light years away. Perhaps, thanks to the James Webb telescope, man will finally get an answer to the above questions.
In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:
With the James Webb Telescope, will we learn the answer to the age-old questions regarding the existence of extraterrestrial life forms, other life forms, intelligent other living beings, other civilizations operating on exoplanets billions of light years away, located in other planetary systems, in other constellations, other stellar constellations, located in other galaxies, galactic nebulae, etc.?
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Dariusz Prokopowicz