The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured some incredible images of planets in our solar system in near-infrared light. These images have revealed new details about the planets and their atmospheres, and have helped us understand the planets better. One of the most recent images captured by JWST is of Uranus. The image shows […]
The James Webb telescope is the most powerful instrument we have ever placed in space to look at our universe. With the successful launch and deployment of the telescope we have a new capability to find not just life but signatures of technology and intelligence. The ability to monitor exo-planets for techno-signatures is something we […]
If you live in the DC-Baltimore area do yourself a favor and go see the fully assembled mirror there. I went to see it a few weeks ago and it is a marvel to behold. To think of all the discoveries it will make and it is only a few feet away from you on […]
JWST is the kind of thing that causes “civilians” to shake their heads and wonder what is wrong with NASA and its scientific directorate. Speaking of the telescope as if it were a complete, working entity worthy of much adulation strains any normal sense of credulity(http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-483T). With a bit of luck, this thing will actually […]
It is hard to believe that there was a time when the James Webb Space Telescope was supposed to launch in the first decade of the new century. The new launch date, which has slipped several times, is now 2018. It does appear that real progress is being made though. As can be seen in […]
Much like the inside of an operating room, in the clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked meticulously to implant part of the eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope. They scrubbed up and suited up to perform one of the most delicate performances of their lives. That part […]
JWST a Mirror into NASA’s Future? The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)could prove to be one if the most important missions that not just NASA but mankind has ever undertaken. The human race has looked up at the stars as long as we have existed and pondered our place in the universe. We now have […]
(Source NASA ) – The second of four main instruments to fly aboard NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has been delivered to NASA. The Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) will enable the telescope to accurately and precisely point at the correct, intended objects for it to observe. The FGS is packaged together as a single […]
