James Webb
Webb Telescope FAQs
How is the James Webb Space Telescope different than the Hubble Space Telescope? What will JWST be looking for when…
JWST Sunscreen Offers SPF 1,000,000
The James Webb Space Telescope will have a sunshield that is about the size of a tennis court, and mission…
Costs for James Webb Telescope Soar — Again
[/caption] The price tag for NASA’s next big space telescope keeps rising and the launch date will likely be delayed…
JWST Built with ‘Unobtainium’
[/caption] The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the much anticipated, long awaited “next generation” telescope, which we hope will…
Extrasolar Volcanoes May Soon be Detectable
[/caption] We’ve all seen pictures of erupting terrestrial volcanoes from space, and even eruptions on Jupiter’s moon Io in the…
Sexy New James Webb Space Telescope “Trailer”
In anticipation of its launch in 2014, and perhaps in response to the Hubble3-D IMAX movie, the James Webb Space…
JWST Will Provide Capability to Search for Biomarkers on Earth-like Worlds
[/caption] Does another Earth exist somewhere in our galaxy? With the recent lauch of the Kepler spacecraft, astronomers are getting…
Q & A with Dr. John Mather on the James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the much anticipated, long awaited "next generation" telescope. Planned for launch in 2013…
Could the First Stars Have Been Powered by Dark Matter?
Early stars that began to form about 200 million years after the Big Bang were strange creatures. From observation, the…
Grapple Attachment May Be Added to the James Webb Telescope
When the James Webb telescope launches in 2013, it'll be the most powerful telescope ever deployed in space. To the…