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Enlarge / NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was placed in Johnson Space Center’s historic Chamber A for vacuum testing on June 20, 2017. (credit: NASA) A new report on the James Webb Space Telescope has found that ongoing technical issues with final testing and assembly of the $ 8.8 billion project will probably cause the […]
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope has been a long time in the making when work on its mirrors started in 2007. It’s finally coming together, though. The LSST team has released a brief clip showing progress on the Chilean facility as of the end of 2017. Not surprisingly, it’s huge — that giant 3.2-gigapixel camera […]
NASA After spending three months at a temperature of just 20°C above absolute zero, the massive James Webb Space Telescope emerged from a large vacuum chamber at the end of 2017. Now, after reviewing data from testing done there, scientists have given the instrument a clean bill of health, moving it one step closer to […]
To design what will be the world’s largest optical telescope, some ambitious astronomers turned to the planemaker for help. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a500c6e1ba7974f31ad0884/master/pass/giantmagellantelescope.jpg Feed: All Latest
Enlarge / Concept image of the WFIRST space telescope. (credit: NASA) First came the Hubble Space Telescope. Now, NASA is finalizing development of the James Webb Space Telescope for launch in 2019. And finally, the space agency is beginning to design and develop its next great space telescope, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or […]
To build the world’s biggest telescope, you first need to cast, shape, and polish the world’s biggest mirrors. https://media.wired.com/photos/59fb84e64fe5c1136b60d0bd/master/pass/telescope-FA.jpg Feed: All Latest
If you’re counting down the days until NASA‘s Hubble replacement takes off, you’ll have to count a bit longer. The James Webb Space Telescope was due to launch around a year from now. But, there seems to be (another) holdup. The aeronautics agency is blaming the delay on the remaining integration of spacecraft parts taking […]
Enlarge / The towering primary mirror of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope stands inside a cleanroom at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. (credit: NASA) Under development for two decades, the James Webb Space Telescope isn’t quite ready to go into space yet. On Thursday, NASA announced that the next-generation space telescope would not be […]
The Hawaii land board has approved the Thirty Meter Telescope on the Mauna Kea mountain which has for years been the subject of of contentious debate and protests that it will desecrate a mountain sacred to the natives. On Thursday, after weeks of hearings, the Hawaii Land Board decided to allow the TMT project to […]
Puerto Rico is suffering on an unimaginable scale in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Many have been displaced from their homes, and the entire territory may go without electricity and reliable communication for months. And while the human tragedy is clearly the most important concern, it’s also having a terrible effect on the scientific community. […]
