• A team of scientists from The University of Arizona aims to usher in a new era for space observatories.
• The team believes its in-development Nautilus Space Observatory could have up to 100 times more sensitivity than the James Webb Space Telescope.
• In an interview with IE, team leader Daniel Apai explained that “we are at the perfect moment in history to re-think how we build space telescopes.”

Within the first two years of science operations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has altered our perception of the cosmos by shedding light on the oldest galaxies ever observed.

Scientists are already looking to the future by researching and developing the technologies required for the next generation of state-of-the-art space observatories.

One example is the Nautilus Space Observatory, which was recently proposed by Daniel Apai, professor of astronomy and planetary sciences at the University of Arizona, and his team.