What if the James Webb Telescope Were 2x vs 100x Bigger?
This is a sci-fi documentary, looking into the future and what happens if the James Webb Space Telescope were 2x, or even 100+ times larger. How could larger space telescopes be built (in orbit assembly, spider fabrication, lunar construction yard, self-assembling robots). And what kind of new images would they take, and what things would they see (further back into the universe, into the cosmic dawn and the cosmic dark ages, star formations, protogalaxies, galaxy mergers, black holes, the Kuiper Belt, and exoplants (their continents and weather patterns).
Personal inspiration in creating this video comes from: Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, and the documentary Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know (following the first image being taken of a black hole by the Event Horizon Telescope).
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PATREON
The third volume of ‘The Encyclopedia of the Future’ is now available on my Patreon.
Visit my Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/venturecity
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Other topics in the video include: what can the current James Webb Telescope see, its discoveries, how far back can it see, what limited its size, an explanation of the JWST and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), in orbit manufacturing, and what would it be like to live on a space telescope space station.
Encyclopedia of the Future entries: Orbital Space Drones, Star Shade, Orbital Platforms, Robotic Nomads, Asteroid Space Stations, Transit Stations.
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Created by: Jacob B
Narration by: Alexander Masters
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Additional images/footage:
• NASA/ESA/CSA, NASA Goddard, ESA, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab
• Concept Art: NASA/Rick Guidice/Don Davis
• ESO/L. Calçada, Digitized Sky Survey 2, ESA/Hubble, RadioAstron, De Gasperin et al., Kim et al., EHT Collaboration
• Redwire Space
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A future sci fi documentary looking at building a larger James Webb Space Telescope.
See more of Venture City on Patreon.
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Book recommendations on artificial intelligence, future technology and innovations, and sci-fi stories (affiliate links):
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies https://amzn.to/3j28WkP
• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence https://amzn.to/3790bU1
• Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era https://amzn.to/351t9Ta
• The Foundation: https://amzn.to/3i753dU
• The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: https://amzn.to/3kNFSyW
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Other videos to watch:
1. The FERMI PARADOX: The Next 100 Years (Cosmic Hide & Seek)
https://youtu.be/8TyR701aYgk
2. TIMELAPSE of Future Space Stations
https://youtu.be/zR7nBGxsi0o
3. The 100 Year Journey to Proxima Centauri B (Sci-Fi Documentary)
https://youtu.be/r4sYJfPw0Rk
@remypascal4872
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
Two more in a triangle position and so a next step is done with bringing the pictures together… alignment…
@MolonLabe24.7
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
The James Webb Space Telescope recently discovered a very large, gaseous crevasse on Uranus.
@pascallehen7325
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
*utain mais quelle VOIX D'IA ATROCE !!! 😵💫😮😱
Je me suis abonné à ça moi ??!
DESABO IMMEDIAT !!!
Chaîne A FUIR (beurk)
@3lit3gn0m3
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
3:36 lol wtf
7:21 ok the memeing is actually out of control for a video like this. It's actually kinda great.
@scottymoondogjakubin4766
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
Waiting for a space telescope powerfull enough to see beyond the outer limits and detect another universe or universes !
@doriskuhberger8559
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
I Love this channel and the stories that you put on.
Thank you for sharing.
Doris, Penrith 🇦🇺🦘
@munozcampos
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
3:37 caught me off guard 😂
@garypalmer997
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
GTA 7 😂
@aweslayne
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
3:38 Optimum pride? 😂
@benttranberg2690
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
Twice as powerful if twice as large? You need to start by defining twice as large. There are three dimensions in space. So what do you mean by twice as large? And along the same lines, what do you mean by twice as powerful?
@shawnhollahan590
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
If its bigger it will see more … DUH
@piconano
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
Is what you're looking at real? Or is it real only when you observe it?
Why is there a 300km/s light speed limit if this is not all a simulation?
@romankrhounek5974
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
Everything about this channel is awesome
@RiddleTime
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
Everytime the word Telescope is said, you drink.
@paytonturner1421
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
I really enjoyed the video very much. I think space manufacturing would be beneficial for building space telescopes in the future so we can study the stars and other planets.
@BruceKimble-1970
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
👍👍👍
@BusinessManGenX
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
Would love to see this tech become reality. This joke was unexpected 7:21 😄
@originalusername6971
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
Win
@edwardroy3401
August 25, 2025 at 3:16 pm
Win
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