NASA finally unfurled the James Webb Space Telescope! The JWST has been undergoing acoustic and vibration testing for months, but it’s been fully opened because now it’s time for the next phase of testing. That will take place at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. There, mission techs and …
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Hubble is nearing the end of its mission, and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been under construction for years. Now that the telescope has been built and is undergoing final testing, NASA has turned its attention to the future — namely, what the Webb Telescope is going to …
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The Hubble Space Telescope has been silently hovering above Earth for over 25 years, but it’s still returning spectacular images of the cosmos. That’s an amazing technological achievement. But it wasn’t always a smooth ride. By now, the story is well known: Despite a Herculean effort to test Hubble before launch, an imperfection …
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In our quest to image exoplanets, we have to contend with one major inconvenience: the telescope-blinding light from their host stars. On earth, people just slap on a pair of Ray-Bans to block out the light from our sun. But we can’t exactly put sunglasses on telescopes, at least not …
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