October 2026
Redefining the edge of the solar system
... warnings of space weather that affects Earth’s magnetosphere. Astrophysics observatories such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), orbit near Sun-Earth L2, enjoy a thermally stable environment, shielded from infrared radiation from the Sun...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
... they are too faint. This limitation will hopefully be bypassed when the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) is deployed in October 2018. As the mission gets underway, a large wealth of infrared spectroscopic data (extended above the...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... lost. Nonetheless, speaking at a press conference last year on the likelihood of whether the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would remain unscathed as President Trump takes office, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is reported as saying, “I think...
04 October 2019
Have ancient filaments helped uncover the nature of dark matter?
... to do this." With a new generation of telescopes getting ready for launch – including the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – scientists will hopefully have the tools to look further back into the history of the Universe than...
06 April 2020
Planets can form second atmospheres rich in CO, new study shows
.... This can be tested by looking at an evolved planets C/O ratio when future observatories such as James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), and the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey (ARIEL...
12 March 2021
Scientists find a rocky exoplanet rebuilding its atmosphere
... just how special this world might will have to wait until the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is up and running – a mission that is expected to finally launch later this year after continual delays have setback...
