By Paul Scott Anderson, on November 26th, 2015
The first of 18 mirrors being installed in the James Webb Space Telescope, in the clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Photo Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just took a big step toward reality with the successful installation of the first of its many flight mirrors. This […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on August 15th, 2015
Discovery near-infrared image of the exoplanet 51 Eridani b taken by the Gemini Planet Imager on Dec. 21, 2014. The relative size of Saturn’s orbit is also shown for comparison. Image Credit: Gemini Observatory/J. Rameau (UdeM)/C. Marois (NRC Herzberg)
The Gemini Planet Imager, a new telescopic instrument designed to find, image, and study […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on August 5th, 2015
Time-lapse view of the asteroid Euphrosyne as seen by NASA’s WISE spacecraft on May 17, 2010. WISE was later renamed to NEOWISE in 2013. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Near-Earth asteroids, also known as Near Earth Objects (NEOs), are some of the best studied space rocks in the Solar System, primarily due to the fact […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on May 13th, 2015 The darker-colored material within the fractures and elsewhere on Europa’s surface might be sea salt brought up from the ocean below. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Ted Stryk
For over a decade, scientists have been curious about the long fractures on Europa’s icy surface and the darker-colored material they contain, as well as other relatively young […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on April 18th, 2015 The search for exoplanets may one day get a lot more glittery. It sounds a bit like science fiction, but a new NASA proposal called Orbiting Rainbows would use glitter-like materials to help image some of those far-away worlds, which could enable high-resolution imaging at a fraction of the cost.
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By Emily Carney, on October 24th, 2014
From NASA: “The view from inside NASA Goddard’s Thermal Vacuum Chamber shows the JWST [James Webb Space Telescope] heart being lowered by crane in preparation of weeks of space environment testing.” An essential component of the James Webb Space Telescope has just completed and survived vacuum testing in extremely cold conditions. Photo Credit: […]
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By Emily Carney, on July 14th, 2014 An artist’s concept of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Image Credit: NASA/ESA
NASA announced on July 8 that it had completed static load testing on the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) Primary Mirror Backplane Support Structure (PMBSS). The testing was completed by two of the contractors tapped to work on JWST, the […]
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By Ken Kremer, on June 30th, 2014
Artist’s concept of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Credit: NASA/ESA
GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD — The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is NASA’s top priority science mission launching in this decade and will have the capability to “look back towards the very first objects that formed after the Big Bang,” said […]
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By Jason Rhian, on August 25th, 2013 The Andromeda Galaxy, M31. Photo Credit: Chris Hetlage / Imaging the Cosmos
Chris Hetlage with Imaging the Cosmos offers up another stunning array of images from his observatory at the Deerlick Astronomy Village in Georgia. This dark sky community has produced stunning imagery of the majesty of space. This collection of photos contain […]
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By Mike Killian, on August 23rd, 2013 [youtube_video]http://youtu.be/6qr_0K7UPas[/youtube_video]
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In an effort to understand how black holes shape the evolution of galaxies, astronomers spent eight months creating a series of time-lapse movies from 400 observations made by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The movies, taken from observations conducted over a 13-year period from 1995-2008, show a […]
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