News About Space Telescopes 19-MAR-10 en-us Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 19, 2010 - A working replica of MIRI - the pioneering camera and spectrometer for the James Webb Space Telescope - has just been shipped (16th March) from the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, bringing the Webb telescope one small step closer to embarking on its journey into space where it will produce the sharpest images yet of the farthest depths of the cosmos.]]> Boston MA (SPX) Mar 17, 2010 - Astronomers will peer deep into the universe in five directions to document the early history of star formation and galaxy evolution in an ambitious new project requiring an unprecedented amount of time on the Hubble Space Telescope.]]> Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2010 - "I knew we were going somewhere," Hubble Space Telescope (HST) repair astronaut Michael Massimino told me recently, when asked what it's like to launch aboard the Space Shuttle. "You just hold on and let's try to enjoy it because you really can't do much about it anyway!"]]> Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 10, 2010 - Like a hard-driving athlete whose joints need help, the giant "Mars antenna" at NASA's Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, Calif. has begun major, delicate surgery.]]> Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 08, 2010 - Keeping an infrared telescope at very cold operating temperatures isn't an option, it's an absolute necessity. For the James Webb Space Telescope to see the traces of infrared light generated by stars and galaxies billions of light years away, it must be kept at cryogenic temperatures of under 50 Kelvin (-370 degrees F).]]> Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 05, 2010 - Keeping an infrared telescope at very cold operating temperatures isn't an option, it's an absolute necessity. For the James Webb Space Telescope to see the traces of infrared light generated by stars and galaxies billions of light years away, it must be kept at cryogenic temperatures of under 50 degrees K (-370 degrees F).]]> Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2010 - Using entire galaxies as lenses to look at other galaxies, researchers have a newly precise way to measure the size and age of the universe and how rapidly it is expanding, on a par with other techniques.]]> Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 03, 2010 - The James Webb Space Telescope reached a mission-readiness landmark today when its first primary mirror segment was cryo-polished to its required prescription as measured at operational cryogenic temperatures. This achievement sets the stage for a successful polishing process for the remaining 18 flight mirror segments.]]> Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2010 - Northrop Grumman will showcase its innovative hardware design for NASA's International X-Ray Observatory (IXO) during the premier conference of the world's leading high energy astrophysicists. IXO is the next generation X-ray telescope slated for development by the space agency.]]> Paris, France (SPX) Feb 25, 2010 - ESO has released a dramatic new image of NGC 346, the brightest star-forming region in our neighbouring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, 210 000 light-years away towards the constellation of Tucana (the Toucan).]]>