March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... has been designed by STFC’s UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UKATC) and incorporates design heritage from the James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI infrared instrument. Observations with Twinkle will take our current wondering about exoplanets to a new...
May 2024
The universe in acrylics - an artist’s passion
... billion years ago. Although I usually draw my inspiration from images from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, during the Reinventing Space conference someone alerted me to imagery of Mars from the HiRISE camera - the High Resolution Imaging...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... not all is 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...
01 December 2017
Search for life more difficult than previously assumed
... may still be habitable," Carone explains. And with the combination of improved data from telescopes such as the James Webb Space Telescope when it is launched in 2019 coupled with advances in computer modelling, significant progress in this exciting...
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) have...
04 October 2019
Have ancient filaments helped uncover the nature of dark matter?
... that model out. We now have a blueprint for how 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...
