How I love reading about the latest discoveries that the telescopes, beginning with Hubble, have provided. It truly is a whole new world.
What could #Webb tell us about the origin and evolution of water and other building blocks for habitable planets? If Webb looked at a star (& planet) forming region, it might detect "fingerprints" of molecules like water, CO, and more. http://go.nasa.gov/2oXpe5B pic.twitter.com/N2TMuehhrf
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Any word of confirmation on when Webb will be ready for deployment?
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They had to postpone launch from October of this year to March / June 2019, Unfortunately.
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Will the telescope be able to detect biomarkers like methane in exoplanets' atmosphere?
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Methane isn't a biomarker, but ozone is. And no, the Webb telescope can't image exoplanet atmospheres by itself, but it can be used in a synthetic aperture configuration with other telescopes, which can together. IF it deploys fully, which frankly I think is a longshot.
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