August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... orbit to the remarkable discoveries of NASA’s Kepler space telescope, progress has been rapid and surprising. The vast...planets that can be observed. By placing a coronagraph on a space telescope, such as WFIRST, it is possible to see much dimmer and...
22 November 2015
James Webb Space Telescope prepped to receive gold-coated primary mirror segments
... large mirror,” said Lee Feinberg, NASA Optical Telescope Element Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The technical challenges of building a complex telescope such as the JSWT has meant that...
March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
... in Messier 82 overlaid on visible-and-infrared composite images (across the bottom) from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The galactic superwind from the central starburst is blasting out plumes of hot gas (red) and...
22 March 2016
Astronomers catch a supernova shock wave in visible light for the first time
An international science team, using NASA's Kepler space telescope, have captured what astronomers call the "shock ... seeds of chemical complexity and life itself have been scattered in space and time in our Milky Way galaxy. "All heavy elements...
24 November 2021
Astronomers discover more than 350 possible new exoplanets
...another. Launched by NASA on 7 March, 2009, the Kepler space telescope has in its lifetime helped to discover more than 2,600 planets...to more than 500,000. But, after nine years in deep space, Kepler ran out of fuel and NASA decided to retire the ...
May 2019
Unlocking the full potential of Earth observation
... observation industry, on a mission to understand the planet we live on like never before. Artist’s concept of the James Webb Space Telescope, which will peer into the cosmos using the most advanced imaging hardware available. In many ways...
