can telescope see back in time ? It is accepted that when it finally launches , the james webb telescope will be able to look even future back in time and observe events which happened long ago in galaxies far away James webb telescope james webb is space telescope which is go in space after the hubble telescope , it is mcuh better than hubble telescope the cost of james webb telescope is $ 9.8 billion it is a very expensiv project and in james webb telescope misson many agencies were aded lilke nasa , esa and csa. This telescope can see back in time webb will be able to see what universe looked like around a quarter of a billion years (possible back to 100 million years ) after the big bang , when the first stars and galaxies started to from . comparison of james webb and hubble telescope ? Webb will primary look at the universe in the infrared ,while hubble studies it primarily at optical and ultraviolet wavelength .... Hubble is in a very ...