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ESD Community Forum - NASA Science
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The Truth About Hubble, JWST, and False Color | NASA Blueshift
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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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What Is the Kuiper Belt? | NASA Space Place - NASA Science for Kids
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| | The icy bits past Neptune's orbit
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Optical Telescope Element: James Webb Space Telescope
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| | James Webb Space Telescope
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NASA's next-gen Roman Space Telescope is surprising scientists with its capabilities and it hasn't even launched yet | Space
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| When it launches, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be tuned to the frequency needed to measure oscillations on over 300,000 red giants, which will aid in better understanding the planets that orbit them.