A rendering of the Giant Magellan Telescope, one of three “extremely large telescope” facilities slated for completion within a decade that will be large enough to resolve the universe’s first objects. Illustration: GMTO Corporation New Gigantic Telescopes Will Crack […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Engineers at ATK work on the center section of the Webb backplane support structure. ©NASA GODDARD James Webb Telescope Makes Progress But at What Cost? By Marc Boucher Posted February 6, 2013 9:40 AM NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center released […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Illustrations of the optics and structure of the two 2.4-meter telescopes donated to NASA by the NRO last year. NASA is studying whether to use these telescopes for WFIRST or other missions. (credit: NASA) The future of space telescopes beyond […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This image shows the four types of mirrors on the Webb telescope. From left to right are: a primary mirror segment, the secondary mirror, tertiary mirror and the fine steering mirror. The bottom right shows an artist’s conception of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Northrop Grumman’s Scott Willoughby points out features of an engineering test model of the bus of the James Webb Space Telescope during a January 11 media tour of the company’s clean room facilities where elements of the observatory are being […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, and it will be almost three times the size of Hubble. JWST has been designed to work best at infrared wavelengths. This will allow it to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ball Aerospace Technician Robin Russell inspects the Webb Telescope Aft Optics Subsystem during mirror integration activities. The Aft Optics bench, made of lightweight beryllium like the mirrors, holds Webb’s tertiary and fine steering mirrors. The installed, gold-coated tertiary mirror can […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, and it will be almost three times the size of Hubble. JWST has been designed to work best at infrared wavelengths. This will allow it to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hubble Space Telescope got one last overhaul in May 2009 by NASA astronauts on the space shuttle Atlantis and has been sending home stunning new photos ever since. Seen here, the iconic space telescope orbits high above the Earth, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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