May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
...extraordinary science, we cannot imagine the universe the James Webb Space Telescope is about to reveal. WST is not ‘Hubble’s ...for JWST. Another motivation for selecting an infrared space telescope comes from our recent advances in the field of...
28 March 2018
Woes for Webb as the space telescope is delayed again
... allocated by U.S Congress for the development of Webb. If the project goes beyond the $8 billion cost cap, the space telescope will have to be reauthorised by Congress and the potential for further delays increases. But, do any missions lift...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... officially ended. Launched in 2003, Spitzer was one of NASA's four Great Observatories, along with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. The Great Observatories program demonstrated...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
... of the optical surfaces, so you have to cool them as much as possible. An artist’s concept depicting the Spitzer Space Telescope in space much as it would appear at the end of its mission on 30 January 2020, with a backdrop depicting the sky...
24 October 2018
New constellations for Fermi's 10th birthday
... not be able to see them with the naked eye, scientists working with NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have mapped out 21 new constellations from gamma-ray sources based on characters and famous objects with...
22 November 2017
JWST completes crucial cryogenic test
...-to-be-launched observatory is ready for the frigid, airless environment of space. The Webb telescope is set to improve our understanding of the Universe in ways like the Hubble Space telescope did when it was launched over 17 years ago. But instead...
