The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of the most ambitious observatories ever planned. Designed to work in infrared wavelengths, it will be a partial successor to the famous Hubble Space Telescope. The JWST, which will be able to see the most distant objects in the Universe with the utmost precision, took ano... |
16 September 2009
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Other than offering a very spectacular view, lunar eclipses are also useful for astronomy, as was proven in 2008. At that time, a group of experts investigating the surface of the satellite saw that, despite the fact that the Earth was completely obscuring the sunlight coming towards the Moon, its surface still shone... |
12 June 2009
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Despite the fact that most contractors and science teams hired by NASA to design and implement the instruments on the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are still in the early phases of development, experts at the agency have recently devised a new 3D model of how the craft will unfold once it reaches its L2 orbit... |
14 May 2009
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Preparations for the scheduled May 14th launch of the European Space Agency's twin observatories, Herschel and Planck, are now developing at full speed, officials from the agency have recently announced. After the Planck telescope was installed over the core stage of its carrying Ariane 5 delivery system last we... |
4 May 2009
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NASA's planned James Webb Space Telescope, designated to succeed the aging Hubble, is currently under development, in a 15-nation collaboration, led by the Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems is the main contractor for the construction, while Ball Aerospace... |
9 April 2009
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Researchers have always wanted better and bigger tools to explore the immensity of the universe. Bigger telescopes, for example, can be used to obtain higher resolution pictures of extremely remote galaxies and stars, to observe and better understand how the early universe was like. And despite the levels of federal ... |
15 November 2007
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Named in 2002, after NASA's second administrator, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a planned space infrared observatory, which will be created as an improvement of the aging Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope is planned to be launched in 2013, from an Ariane 5 rocket, and is the result of the collaboratio... |
29 October 2007
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