Saturday Space Sight: Mirror ‘Cans’
The powerful primary mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to detect the light from distant galaxies. The manufacturer of those mirrors, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of...
View ArticleFirst Two Webb Telescope Flight Mirrors Delivered to NASA
Technicians and scientists check out one of the Webb telescope’s first two flight mirrors in the clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. (Photo by NASA/Chris Gunn) The first...
View ArticleSaturday Space Sight: Hubble Sees a Galaxy With a Glowing Heart
This view, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a nearby spiral galaxy known as NGC 1433. At about 32 million light-years from Earth, it is a type of very active galaxy known as a...
View ArticleSaturday Space Sight: Next-generation Microshutter Array Technology
NASA technologists have hurdled a number of significant challenges in their quest to improve a revolutionary observing technology originally created for the James Webb Space Telescope. This image shows...
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