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James Webb Full-Scale Model

The James Webb Space Telescope model is flying to Germany

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The model of the James Webb Space Telescope has been making a lot of "orbits" around the world, and is now slated to "land" at the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany from October 13-28, 2008.





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NASA Flight Tests Unique Jumbo Jet with Opening in Side

NASA Tests Unique Jumbo Jet with Opening in Side; Plane's Airborne Telescope Will Be Used to Study Cosmos

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA jumbo jet that will help scientists unlock the origins of the universe with infrared observations reached a milestone Friday when doors covering the plane's telescope were fully opened ...


James Webb Space Telescope full-scale model coming to COSPAR meeting in Montreal

James Webb Space Telescope full-scale model coming to COSPAR meeting in Montreal

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created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope resumes its world tour with a stop in Montreal. The model will be on display July 13 - 20 in conjunction with the 37th Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) ...


Software coordinates 19 mirrors, focuses James Webb Space Telescope

Software coordinates 19 mirrors, focuses James Webb Space Telescope

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created Aug 24, 2007 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Scientists and engineers have created and successfully tested a set of algorithms and software programs which are designed to enable the 19 individual mirrors comprising NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope ...


James Webb Space Telescope first flight mirror completes cryogenic testing

James Webb Space Telescope first flight mirror completes cryogenic testing

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created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first mirror segment that will fly on the James Webb Space Telescope, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation, has completed its first series of cryogenic temperature tests in the X-ray ...


Scientists use world's fastest supercomputer to model origins of the unseen universe

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in explaining the universe, according to Salman Habib, of the Laboratory's Nuclear and Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology group.


High-precision measurements confirm cosmologists' standard view of the universe

Precise picture of early Universe supports 'dark matter' theory

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 9

A detailed picture of the seeds of structures in the universe has been unveiled by an international team co-led by a Cardiff University scientist.


Computer Finds Massive Black Hole in Nearby Galaxy

Computer Finds Massive Black Hole in Nearby Galaxy

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 7

Astronomers Karl Gebhardt of The University of Texas at Austin and Jens Thomas of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have used new computer modeling techniques to discover that the black ...


Astronauts step out on 1st spacewalk to fix Hubble (AP)

Astronauts step out on 1st spacewalk to fix Hubble (Update)

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created May 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- A pair of spacewalking astronauts stepped outside Thursday to begin demanding repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope, a job made all the more dangerous because of the high, debris-ridden orbit.


The Einstein Cross

Astronomers dissect a supermassive black hole with natural magnifying glasses

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 12, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 1

The team of astronomers from Europe and the US studied the "Einstein Cross", a famous cosmic mirage. This cross-shaped configuration consists of four images of a single very distant source. The multiple images ...


'Scarecrow' Mars Science Laboratory

Mars Rover Laser Tool Ready for Testing

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created Jun 22, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Mars mission Job One: Get there. Job Two: Find rocks and zap them with your laser tool. Now learn the nature of the debris by spectrographically analyzing the ensuing dust and fragments. It’s every kid’s dream, ...



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