Webb Telescope

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.

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NASA moved shuttle Atlantis to the launchpad Thursday for a flight next month to the Hubble Space Telescope after work was delayed by tropical storms.  
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The space shuttle Atlantis has returned to the launching pad. If all goes to plan it will blast off on October 8 on a mission to upgrade / repair the veteran Hubble Space Telescope, putting in new instruments, repairing existing ones and swapping new batteries for old. This will be the last...  
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Colorado is poised to play a key role in a $900 million NASA mission to give the Hubble Space Telescope a new lease on life.  
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA moved shuttle Atlantis to the launch pad on Thursday for a flight next month to the Hubble Space Telescope after being waylaid by a pair of tropical storms.  
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On October 8th, Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to lift-off for a final visit to the Hubble Space Telescope .  
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Here are some fantastic high resolution photos of preparations for the Space Shuttle Atlantis’ mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, scheduled for October 8th: Preparing to rescue Hubble.  
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Warm summer nights are great for stargazing! Moon/Meteors/Satellites: This week the moon is getting bigger as it heads toward becoming a 1st Quarter Moon September 7th.  
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA says it has moved the shuttle Atlantis to the launch pad for a flight next month to the Hubble Space Telescope, after waiting out a pair of tropical storms.  
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Becky Ramotowski: Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer and we have some cool targets to track. Let's begin with a few Hubble Space Telescope passes, and later we'll talk about the meandering moon.  
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The discovery of binaries in the Kuiper Belt and related small body populations is powering a revolutionary step forward in the study of this remote region. ...  
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FiReaNGeL writes "An international team has obtained the closest views ever of what is believed to be a super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The astronomers used radio dishes in Hawaii, Arizona and California to create a virtual telescope more than 2,800 miles across...  
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Atlantis is set to launch on October 8th on an 11-day mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. This will be the last repair mission to the Hubble Space ...  
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Astronomers have obtained the closest views ever of what is believed to be a super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The astronomers linked together radio dishes in Hawaii, Arizona and California to create a virtual telescope more than 2,800 miles across that is capable of...  
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found an answer to a long-standing puzzle by resolving giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275. It is the most striking example of the influence of the immense tentacles of extragalactic magnetic fields...  
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