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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has passed a major milestone, completing its prelaunch environmental testing. The space agency and primary contractor Northrop Grumman subjected the fully assembled spacecraft to several weeks of acoustic and sine-vibr… Continue reading James Webb Space Telescope completes prelaunch environmental tests
NASA and ESA have announced that the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope has been delayed once again. Thanks largely to the COVID-19 pandemic, the launch will be bumped to October 2021.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Astronomy, NASA,… Continue reading Pandemic causes new delay for launch of James Webb Space Telescope
At this point, most of us are painfully aware of the restrictions that COVID-19 social distancing protocols have put on our daily lives. Anyone who can is working from home, major events are canceled, non-essential businesses are closed, and travel is either strongly discouraged or prohibited outright. In particularly hard …read more
Continue reading Getting To Space Is Even Harder During a Pandemic
The James Webb Space Telescope has crossed another milestone on the path to its long-awaited launch. NASA engineers have now completed a deployment test, unfurling the telescope’s gigantic mirror into the configuration it will take in space.Continue Re… Continue reading NASA unfolds James Webb Telescope’s huge mirrors in deployment test
Today, after 16 years of exemplary service, NASA will officially deactivate the Spitzer Space Telescope. Operating for over a decade beyond its designed service lifetime, the infrared observatory worked in tandem with the Hubble Space Telescope to reveal previously hidden details of known cosmic objects and helped expand our understanding …read more
Continue reading The Spitzer Space Telescope Ends its Incredible Journey
Since its launch in March 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has provided us with an incredible amount of data about exoplanets within our galaxy, proving these worlds are more varied and numerous than we could ever have imagined. Before its launch we simply didn’t know how common planets such as ours were, but today we know the Milky Way contains billions of them. Some of these worlds are so hot they have seas of molten rock, others experience two sunsets a day as they orbit a pair of stars. Perhaps most importantly, thousands of the planets found by Kepler are …read more
Continue reading Kepler Closes Eyes After a Decade of Discovery
Thanks to gravitational lensing, astronomers can observe normal stars across colossal stretches of space and time. Continue reading At Nine Billion Light Years, ‘Icarus’ Is the Most Distant Star Ever Observed
Watch an astrophysicist’s live talk on the telescope from the Perimeter Institute. Continue reading NASA Is Stress-Testing Its Next Gigantic Kickass Space Telescope
“It boggles the mind that over 90 percent of the galaxies in the universe have yet to be studied.” Continue reading The Universe Contains Ten Times As Many Galaxies As Previously Estimated
Some of these planets could host life. Continue reading The Kepler Mission Has Found Another 1,284 Planets—The Biggest Haul Yet