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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...

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First 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...

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Saturday 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...

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Saturday 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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