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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
A new way of bending X-rays raises the prospect of smaller, more powerful X-ray space telescopes. Based on technology originally developed for medical imaging machines, Stacked Prism Lens are being developed by a team led by Mats Danielsson a… Continue reading Ditching mirrors for plastic prisms will make for much smaller, more powerful X-ray telescopes
NASA is retiring the Kepler space telescope after nine years. Continue reading The Kepler Space Telescope, Which Discovered 2,600 Exoplanets, Is Out of Fuel