21 July 2021
New balloon-borne astronomical telescope to rival Hubble
... Euclid observatory due to launch next year can only take images in a single optical band, and the James Webb Space Telescope due to launch this autumn is limited to infrared wavelengths. This means SuperBIT will be the only facility in the...
29 March 2018
NASA Hubble Space Telescope Owners’ Workshop Manual
... into nine sections covering everything from the historical background to the HST to (briefly) its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope. Significant sections include those on the design and development of the Hubble and its scientific instrument...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
...will be instrumental in helping astronomers effectively utilise future NASA missions like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). How would you describe the engineering legacy of these developments...
27 September 2016
Astronomers observe possible water vapour plumes on Europa
...see. The team, led by William Sparks of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, had originally planned to find out...have to wait until 2018, when the James Webb Space Telescope is launched and infra red instruments on board can confirm ...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... initial data collected on this uncommon exoplanet. “The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will provide amazing data on this planet,... images were downloaded from the Mikulski Archive for Space telescopes (MAST) - a NASA funded data storage facility...
28 April 2020
Hubble turns 30!
... James Webb Space Telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (the European Space Agency). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope...
