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Technicians complete the primary mirror backplane support structure wing assemblies.

NASA's Webb Telescope Gets Its Wings

03.15.2013
A massive backplane that will hold the primary mirror of JWST nearly motionless while it peers into space is another step closer to completion.
The Euclid spacecraft

NASA Goddard Team to Participate in Dark Energy Mission

02.12.2013
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected three NASA-nominated science teams to participate in their planned Euclid mission, including one led by Goddard Space Flight Center.
[Companion release on the JPL team]
Artist's comception of JWST

Webb Telescope Team Completes Optical Milestone

01.16.2013
Engineers working on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope met another milestone recently with they completed performance testing on the observatory's aft-optics subsystem.
composite of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872

NASA'S Galex Reveals The Largest-Known Spiral Galaxy

01.10.2013
The barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 has ranked among the biggest stellar systems for decades. Now a team of astronomers has crowned it the largest-known spiral, based on archival data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission.
Photo of JWST's secondary mirror

Video Hails Arrival of 2 Different Webb Telescope Mirrors

11.28.2012
The sole secondary mirror and a third primary mirror segment that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope arrived on Nov. 5, 2012. A video of the mirrors arriving was released today that shows the arrival of both mirror segments and movement into a giant clean room.
Artist's concept of infrared glow

NASA's Spitzer Sees Light of Lonesome Stars

10.24.2012
A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests a cause for the mysterious glow of infrared light seen across the entire sky.
This plot shows the fractions of settled disk galaxies in four time spans, each about 3 billion years long.

Astronomers Uncover A Surprising Trend in Galaxy Evolution

10.19.2012
A comprehensive study of hundreds of galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected pattern of change that extends back 8 billion years, or more than half the age of the universe.
Hubble XDF image

Hubble Goes to the eXtreme to Assemble Farthest-Ever View of the Universe

09.25.2012
Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever view of the universe.
Hubble image of clusters of stars

Hubble Watches Star Clusters on a Collision Course

08.16.2012
Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging.
This is an image taken from one of NASA’s two special Webb-cams.

NASA's 'Webb-Cam' Has Double Vision for MIRI's Arrival

06.29.2012
NASA's special "Webb-cam" now has "double vision," because there are two video cameras now focusing on what's happening with the very first completed instrument that will fly onboard the James Webb Space Telescope.
Photo of Charles L. Bennett

NASA's WMAP Science Team Awarded 2012 Gruber Cosmology Prize

06.22.2012
NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, known as WMAP, transformed the science of cosmology by establishing the age, geometry, and contents of the universe to astonishing precision.
Johns Hopkins Press Release
Mid-Infrared Instrument

First Flight Instrument Delivered for James Webb

06.14.2012
The first of four instruments to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been delivered to NASA. The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) will allow scientists to study cold and distant objects in greater detail than ever before.
These two panels show the same slice of sky in the constellation Boötes.

NASA's Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously

06.07.2012
The faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precision yet, using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
A speeding star can be seen leaving an enormous trail in this image from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer.

NASA Lends Galaxy Evolution Explorer to Caltech

05.16.2012
NASA is lending the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, where the spacecraft will continue its exploration of the cosmos.
The center section of the James Webb Space Telescope flight backplane, or Primary Mirror Backplane Support Structure

NASA's Webb Telescope Flight Backplane Section Completed

04.24.2012
The center section of the backplane structure that will fly on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been completed, marking an important milestone in the telescope's hardware development.
diagram of Extra-Zodiacal Explorer (EZE) mission architecture

NASA's Goddard, Glenn Centers Look to Lift Space Astronomy out of the Fog

03.12.2012
A fogbank is the least useful location for a telescope, yet today's space observatories effectively operate inside one.
Technician working on Webb mirrors

Cryogenic Testing Completed for NASA's Webb Telescope Mirrors

12.22.2011
Cryogenic testing is complete for the final six primary mirror segments and a secondary mirror that will fly on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
This image reveals 18 timy galaxies uncovered by HST.

NASA's Hubble Observes Young Dwarf Galaxies Bursting With Stars

11.10.2011
Using its near-infrared vision to peer 9 billion years back in time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered an extraordinary population of young dwarf galaxies brimming with star formation.

Mikulski Opens Webb Telescope Exhibit at Maryland Science Center

10.26.2011
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver joined U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) during a dedication of a permanent exhibit of JWST to the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore.
Life-sized model of the James Webb Space Telescope in Munich, Germany.

Giant-Sized Webb Space Telescope Model to 'Land' in Baltimore

10.12.2011
Baltimore's Maryland Science Center is going to be the "landing site" for the life-sized full-scale model of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, and it's free for all to see.
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/oct/HQ_M11-210_JWST_Baltimore.html
Photo of the sunshield

Tests Under Way on the Sunshield for NASA's Webb Telescope

09.19.2011
NASA is testing an element of the sunshield that will protect the James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors and instruments during its mission to observe the most distant objects in the universe.
The first six flight ready James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments are prepped to begin final cryogenic testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

NASA's Webb Telescope Completes Mirror-Coating Milestone

09.13.2011
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has reached a major milestone in its development. The mirrors that will fly aboard the telescope have completed the coating process at Quantum Coating Inc. in Moorestown, N.J.
MIRI thermal test chamber

Webb Telescope's MIRI Flight Instrument Completes Cryogenic Testing in the U.K.

08.18.2011
A pioneering camera and spectrometer that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has completed cryogenic testing designed to mimic the harsh conditions it will experience in space.
Image of the Scanning Shack Hartmann System.

New Webb Telescope Technologies Already Helping Human Eyes

07.28.2011
Even while construction of the James Webb Space Telescope is underway on the most advanced infrared vision of any space observatory, its technologies are already proving useful to human eye health here on Earth.
photo of webb telescope Secondary Mirror

Being "Secondary" is Important for a Webb Telescope Mirror

07.19.2011
"Secondary" may not sound as important as "primary" but when it comes to the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope a secondary mirror plays a critical role in ensuring the telescope gathers information from the cosmos.
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