https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXiU1YxWyzY
some good history of the James Webb space telescope . . . so far. I posted some idea of what advanced Astronomical telescopes could look like - assuming the politicians and public allows us to. I posted them in another video actually.
I think I've done something similar awhile back; but, here goes again!
"I can't wait for the dark side of the moon to be covered with astronomical interferometers of every wavelenght, and then, O-Neil cylinder space colony Astronomy telescopes put at the Lagrange points . . . all interferometrically linked with the dark side of the moon telescopes. . . . oh yes, I'm fogetting this one diffraction disk space telescope technology. Just one of those can see Earth's thousands of light years away! . . . and you know what, all these space astronomy I'm takling about could cost next to nothing; because they'll all be built with nano-manufacturing systems. They'll grow these space telescopes like growing potatoes and tomatos! . . . Those space telescopes will be controlled by exotic atomic clocks(today's astronomy telescopes are also controlled by atomic clocks), and the data will crunched by memrister nano-computers and quantum computers! . . . also, the secondary mirrors will "cloaked out" by metamaterials cloaking technology! So, those spikes you see in astronomy pictures because of the secondary mirror braces will be a thing of the past. But, of further note, every point of a reflecting mirror telescope has tiny little spikes that kind of mesh into one another. Imagine taking all those little spikes and the big visible ones right out of an astronomical picture!"
I should say that the Lagrange points are stable points found by Louis Lagrange back in the late 1700s. They're points around the orbit of the Moon that if you place something there, they stay there. The European Astronomers actually placed a Herschel infrared space telescope at a Lagrange point a decade or so ago. It was a successful mission, and was meant as a precursor mission for the James Webb space telescope - a survey telescope. The James Webb space telescope, which will also be placed at a Lagrange point, will concentrage on points of interest found by the Herschel space telescope.
