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  2. The telescope has a much wider field of view than Hubble due to its shorter focal length, allowing it to observe about 100 times the area at any given time as Hubble can. [4] This has led to the donated telescopes' characterization as "Stubby Hubbles". [7]

  3. James Webb Space Telescope - Wikipedia

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    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy.As the largest telescope in space, it is equipped with high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments, allowing it to view objects too old, distant, or faint for the Hubble Space Telescope. [9]

  4. Very Large Telescope - Wikipedia

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    The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is an astronomical facility operated since 1998 by the European Southern Observatory, located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. It consists of four individual telescopes, each equipped with a primary mirror that measures 8.2 meters in diameter.

  5. Side-by-side photos show how much more powerful NASA's ... - AOL

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    The James Webb telescope is six times larger and 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope, and the pictures show it.

  6. Webb telescope confirms the universe is expanding at an ...

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    Two years of data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have now validated the Hubble Space Telescope's earlier finding that the rate of the universe's expansion is faster - by about 8% - than ...

  7. List of largest optical reflecting telescopes - Wikipedia

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    Scale comparison between the primary mirrors of the Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope, and the proposed LUVOIR-B and LUVOIR-A. Selected large telescopes which are in detailed design or pre-construction phases: Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR), a proposed space telescope for launch in the mid 2030s.

  8. Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - Wikipedia

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    The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI) is a 300.8-megapixel multi-band visible and near-infrared camera, providing a sharpness of images comparable to that achieved by the Hubble Space Telescope over a 0.28 square degree field of view, 100 times larger than imaging cameras on the Hubble.

  9. James Webb telescope sheds light on earliest galaxies to date

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    The confirmation comes from the data taken from Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is the largest and the most powerful telescope ever built. ... some further away than Hubble could ...