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| | | | | James Webb Space Telescope | |
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science.nasa.gov
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| | | | | NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched to space. Its mirror is composed of 18 individual segments that have been aligned so accurately, that they effectively work as a single giant (21.6-foot, or 6.5-meter) reflector. The process of adjusting each of these separately functioning hexagonal mirror segments requires ... | |
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asd.gsfc.nasa.gov
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| | | | | I get a lot of questions asking why the James Webb Space Telescope is infrared, and how its images can hope to compare to the (primarily) optical Hubble Space Telescope. Why would NASA build something that isn't going to capture beautiful images exactly like Hubble does? The short answer to this is that JWST will absolutely capture beautiful images of the universe, even if it won't see exactly what Hubble does. (Spoiler: it will see a lot of things even better.) There are legit scientific reasons for JWS... | |
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astroengine.com
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| | | A tiny rock has been detected in the Kuiper belt, which may not seem like such a big deal, but how it was found is. [NASA,ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)] We think we have a pretty good handle on how planets form. After the birth of a star, big enough clumps of dust and rock... | ||
