I think it’s kind of an unfair comparison. Hubble was made decades before Webb was, when we knew a lot less than we do now.
This is like insulting Shakespeare for not writing with a ballpoint pen.
And if I’m not mistaken, hubble looks at different wavelengths of light than JWST, so naturally their observations are going to look different. JWST looks at infrared or near IR while hubble sees mostly visible light.
Yes, and the JWSTs combined mirrors are three times larger than what Hubble has. The different wavelengths of light it can see are only part of the reason the pictures are better.
The IR cameras not only give better pictures of closer objects, it can see much older light that has been redshifted out of the range of Hubble’s cameras.
Regardless, both of those machines are amazing creations.
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.
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
Text to speech?
