With the recent launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are excited to start collecting data from the newest and most powerful space telescope in the world. The telescope is still in the ...
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OTTOBRUNN, Germany — European contractors on Oct. 14 completed work on a full-scale test model of one of the four observing instruments for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and told NASA the ...
While engineers for the James Webb Space Telescope continue the long and delicate process of aligning its mirrors in order to get the telescope ready for science operations this summer, other teams ...
The Webb team has now approved 10 out of 17 science instrument modes; since last week we added (14) MIRI imaging, (2) NIRCam wide-field slitless spectroscopy, and our final NIRISS mode, (10) ...
The cosmos is filled with color, and color is a key in determining age, chemical composition and how far objects are from Earth. To help identify these colors and objects the James Webb Space ...
For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus's upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the ...
A NASA photographer recently captured a 'NIRSpec-tacular' photo of an instrument that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope when it launches in 2018. Access into a clean room to get a ...