NASA has provided the first glimpse of what a new space telescope that monitors infrared and ultraviolet radiation will look like. It can search for exoplanets that look like habitable Earth and signs of life on it. It will be known as the Habitable Worlds Observatory.
According to Space, NASA is considering the project as an astrophysics mission. To fulfill its mission to search for life, the Habitable Worlds Observatory will need to be an ultra-stable telescope with a powerful imaging instrument, an instrument that allows scientists to study faint objects such as rocky planets. Near bright objects such as stars.
The National Academies of Sciences document, nicknamed the Decadal Survey, also indicated that NASA should use small missions to develop X-ray and far-infrared observation technologies that could be used in two large space telescope missions, and they should later join the Habitable Worlds Observatory.
The Habitable Worlds Observatory, such as JWST, will float about a million miles (1.5 million km) from Earth across from the Sun, at a spot known as Earth-sun Lagrange point 2, or L2, but unlike its predecessor, the future observatory will one day benefit from robotic updates.