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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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The hunt for extraterrestrial life is getting a major boost from revolutionary new technology that will give some of the world's largest telescopes the capability to detect Earth-size planets outside of our solar system, a feat not equaled even by the Hubble Space Telescope. The technique...  
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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of galaxies colliding, passing through one another and leaving behind immense tails.  
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The nine-year contract extension marks more than 25 years of continuous CSC support for the program.  
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CSC announced today it will continue to support NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Program under a new agreement with the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc.  
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NASA The Hubble Space Telescope gleams after a servicing mission in 2002. The Hubble Space Telescope's handlers are weighing a plan to turn on a never-used backup system to restore communications as early as next week. If it works, the world's favorite orbiting observatory could be back...  
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Other robotic missions like Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope, with eyes far more ...  
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CSC has won a $50 million contract from the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc., which runs NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. (CSC)  
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... with the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. (AURA), which operates the Space Telescope Science Institute for NASA in Baltimore, ...  
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The U.S. space agency says it plans to display a full-sized model of the James Webb Space Telescope at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany.  
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Since 1990, The Hubble Space Telescope has dazzled the human eye with images far beyond its natural ability, reaching distant galaxies, broadening the scientific scope and unraveling the deepest and darkest secrets of outer space.  
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The $4.5 billion telescope will be placed in orbit 1.5 million km from Earth and will be almost three times the size of the Hubble.  
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NASA will host a media teleconference at 12:30 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 14, to brief reporters about the status of efforts to revive the data handling unit that failed on the Hubble Space Telescope in late-September.  
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NASA will host a media teleconference at 12:30 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 14, to brief reporters about the status of efforts to revive the data handling unit that failed on the Hubble Space Telescope in late-September.  
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NASA is in the midst of a readiness review today that ultimately is aimed at restarting Hubble Space Telescope science observations by the end of next week. ...  
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Fixing unresolved anomalies on a spare part intended to be sent up to Hubble could further delay a shuttle servicing mission to the telescope Problems with a spare part for the Hubble Space Telescope - which ...  
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