NASA scientists announced the replacement to the legendary Hubble Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope has IR capabilities and features over 62,000 microshutters to capture up to 100 objects in space and allow scientists to observe distant stars and galaxies.

“The James Webb Telescope will look further back in time,” said chief engineer of the Instrument Systems and Technology, Dr. Murzy Jhabvala of the Goddard Space Flight Center in an interview with DigitalCameraInfo.com.

The Microshuuter contains 62,415 tiny shutters, each measuring a tiny 100 x 200 microns and they can pen and close by applied voltage and magnets for approximately 50,000 times.The telescope also must operate at a frigid -388°F (40 Kelvin), which is the temperature of the Near Infrared Spectrograph, according to a Jan. 24 NASA press release.

“It could enable science, revolutionize the way we look at the universe,” said Jhabvala, “challenging the human imagination and future generations.” Although the advantages of the Webb Telescope are hard to quantify, Jhabvala said, “the benefits that will emanate are extraordinary.”