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The Hubble Space Telescope enabled us to see farther into the past than ever before. For all the incredible images Hubble provided for us, though, its limitations prevented us from reaching ever closer to the big bang. The James Webb Space Telescope will pick up where Hubble left off, allowing us to inch closer and closer towards the beginning of the universe.

 

thanks to #Milkyway Scientists 

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todays-element-is:

Today’s Element is… Beryllium!

It sounds like a very important one!

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Space Robot

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crookedindifference:

James Webb Telescope Model at South by Southwest

As big as a tennis court and as tall as a four-story building, a full-scale model of the James Webb Space Telescope model was on display from March 8-10 at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the successor to Hubble and the largest space telescope to ever be built.

And suddenly I have an actual reason to wish I was at South by Southwest. 

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unknownskywalker:

JWST Deployment

This graphic shows how the James Webb Space Telescope will deploy after launch. There is also a video animation of deployment on YouTube: youtu.be/vpVz3UrSsE4.

Download Original Image: 2550×7902px - JPG, 2.70 MB

A JWST Transformer would be code-named Imaginator according to a mission scientist I asked about this. Just so all of you know.

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ikenbot:

JWST Stream

The James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST) is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope.

Images from Official JWST Flickr stream (Mix between model JWST and real one)

The project is working to a 2018 launch date. Webb will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Webb will peer through dusty clouds to see stars forming planetary systems, connecting the Milky Way to our own Solar System. Webb’s instruments will be designed to work primarily in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum, with some capability in the visible range.

Webb will have a large mirror, 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) in diameter and a sunshield the size of a tennis court. Both the mirror and sunshade won’t fit onto a rocket fully open, so both will fold up and open once Webb is in outer space. Webb will reside in an orbit about 1.5 million km (1 million miles) from the Earth.

The James Webb Space Telescope was named after the NASA Administrator who crafted the Apollo program, and who was a staunch supporter of space science.

I love you, JWST!

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avarenity:

spacetracks:

Space telescopes on Earth - A life-size model of the James Webb Space Telescope will accompany NASA to the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, next month.  

The model is as big as a tennis court and weighs 12,000 pounds.  It will take 2 trucks to ship it and a crew of 12 people will need 4 days to put it together. 

“The Webb telescope model is coming to SXSW just in time to highlight that this spring NASA is beginning to bring together some of the major parts of the observatory,” said Eric Smith, Webb telescope deputy program director at NASA Headquarters, Washington. “In 2013, NASA will start to integrate the four science instruments into the structure that will attach to the telescope.”

hello James Webb

I think I saw this model when it was in Battery Park!

avarenity:

So I write fanfic about the James Webb Space Telescope. obviously I have not finished said fanfic.

Also jailbroken iPhone is jailbroken.

Tweets from JWST?

electricspacekoolaid:

James Webb Space Telescope Coming Together

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most intricate and powerful observatories ever devised.

Almost immediately after launching into space in 2018, James Webb Space Telescope will begin the slow process of unfolding from its clamshell configuration into the most sensitive infrared instrument of its kind yet built. The telescope will then begin peering deep into the cosmos for signals left over from the Big Bang that created our universe.

“We will actually stretch out as we’re flying,” Willoughby said.

The entire process will take roughly two weeks and will happen while JWST is speeding toward its final destination, a gravitationally stable spot 900,000 miles (1.5 million km) from Earth called the sun-Earth Lagrange point 2.

Six months after launch, the telescope should be ready to kick off its five-year science mission. (The entire observatory has a 10-year design life.)

“The Mars [rover Curiosity] had seven minutes of terror,” said JWST scientist Heidi Hammel of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. “We’re going to have seven days of terror

But JWST’s nail-biting deployment won’t be the first time the craft unfolds. Before constructing the final components, engineers have been making sure to test and retest mockups in conditions potentially harsher than the telescope — the long-awaited $8.8 billion successor to NASA’s iconic Hubble Space Telescope — will experience.

Space-ready drafts of the mirrors, solar shields and electronics-bearing body of the craft have been fabricated by the Northrop Grumman Corporation, NASA’s primary contractor in charge of building JWST.

Read Article - See [Photos: The James Webb Space Telescope]

C’mon, JWST! Hexagon power!

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rhea137:

A few Major Telescopes

From left to right: 

• James Webb Space Telescope (2018 launch)  
• Hubble Space Telescope
• Kepler Space Telescope
• XMM Newton
• NASA Spitzer Space Telescope

Space observatories!

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