Telescopes like ALMA (working in the range 0.4-3.0 mm) and JWST (working in IR, in the range 0.6-28.5 micro-m) would help astronomers close a gap of observations that corresponds to the window
A) z = 2-3, when the star formation rate peaked.
B) z = 10-1,000, between the epochs of recombination and reionization.
C) z = 0-0.5, when there was a big change in the relative fraction of irregular galaxies.
D) z 1,100, to directly observe the inflation epoch.
E) Such telescopes are actually designed to only explore planetary systems within the boundaries of our Milky Way.
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