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Webb Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope is a planned space infrared observatory, intended to ultimately replace the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency are all working on the Webb telescope... [more]
The James Webb Space Telescope is a planned space infrared observatory, intended to ultimately replace the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency are all working on the Webb telescope project. The telescope is named after NASA's second administrator, James E. Webb.
Unfortunately the telescope won't be launched into orbit until at the soonest 2013.
While observing stars in our own Milky Way galaxy with the Hubble Space in an ongoing study that has spanned several years, astronomers stumbled upon a distant elliptical galaxy 1.2 billion light years away packed with clusters of stars too dim for most telescopes to see. Oddly, the light from some of these clusters are not young and blue as expected, but rather, older and redder -an observation Jason Kalirai of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and colleagues are wrestling to...
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Astronomers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico joined a project called
Electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (e-VLBI), which can make
temporary radio telescopes that rival the size of the Earth, spanning North America, South America, Europe and Africa.The e-VLBI's size gives it 10 times the resolution of the Hubble
Space Telescope, allowing the array to image objects - like the bright
'afterglow' formed when a high-speed jet of matter from a gamma-ray
burst slams into its...
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The Hubble Space Telescope and Keck Observatory images may support the idea that Jupiter is in the
midst of violent global climate change.
This theory was first proposed in 2004 by Phil
Marcus, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of
California, Berkeley. The planet's temperatures may be changing by 15
to 20 degrees Fahrenheit, with the giant planet getting warmer near the
equator and cooler near the South Pole. Marcus predicted that large changes
would start in the...
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Physicist Giovanni Fazio and astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have spotted what appear to be tornadoes in space. Fazio believes the spirals may be the first step in the formation
of a new star. The structure, observed with NASA's Spitzer infrared
telescope developed by Fazio, is a shock wave created by a jet of material slamming on a
cloud of interstellar gas and dust at more than 100 miles per second,
heating the cloud and causing it to glow. Physicists say...
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It helps to put things in perspective here on our frenetic little planet with a look at this extraordinarily powerful and moving video of the Hubble Space Telescope mapping of the Universe, whose known size is 78 billion light years across.
The video of the images is the equivalent of using a "time machine" to
look into the past to witness the early formation of galaxies, perhaps
less than one billion years after the universe's birth in the Big Bang.
The video includes mankind's...
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Mars isn’t the only source of cool news about outer space. NASA has announced that by the end of the year, the world’s greatest telescope will be refitted to see deeper into space than ever before.
- NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report # 4638 (rss.topix.net)
The delicate equipment to refurbish the 18-year-old Hubble Space Telescope has begun arriving at Kennedy Space Center, presenting ...
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The delicate equipment to refurbish the 18-year-old Hubble Space Telescope has begun arriving at Kennedy Space Center, presenting payload managers with one of their greatest challenges.
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Toronto- The huge space telescope that is being constructed in the United States will feature a number of different vital instruments that are being produced by Canadian Scientists.
The new telescope is the size of a tennis court, and it will produce images that are more in depth and precise than...
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- James Webb Space Telescope Full-Scale Model Coming to COSPAR ... (news.google.com)
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James Webb Space Telescope Will Carry Canadian Devices
Toronto- The huge space telescope that is being constructed in the United States will feature a number of different vital instruments that are being produced by Canadian Scientists.
The new telescope is the size of a tennis court, and it...
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- Cdn instruments to be on board giant James Webb space telescope (rss.topix.net)
Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope show that Jupiter’s small red spot has moved.
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These pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope show the passage of Red Spot Jr. and Baby Red Spot in a band of clouds below the Great Red Spot. Junior (the two- toned spot at the very bottom) survived unscathed, but Baby (indicated by the arrow at far right...
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Students at the Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory’s space exploration camp will conduct a simulated space shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope on Friday, July 11. The mission will use a large mock-up of the Hubble Space Telescope and computer software derived from NASA training...
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Hubble Space Telescope image shows Einstein ring of one of the SLACS gravitational lenses, with the lensed background galaxy enhanced in blue. A. Bolton (UH/IfA) for SLACS and NASA/ESA.
An international team of astronomers have compiled the largest-ever single collection of "gravitational lens...
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Young star cluster M16 is surrounded by natal clouds of cosmic dust and glowing gas also known as The Eagle Nebula. This beautifully detailed image of the region includes fantastic shapes made famous in well-known Hubble Space Telescope close-ups of the starforming complex.
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