Space Telescopes
Good-bye Spitzer. We’ll Miss You But We Won’t Forget You.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has reached the end of its life. Its mission was to study objects in the infrared,…
It Looks Like James Webb’s Launch Date is Going to Slip to July 2021
Put "James Webb Telescope launch" into your search engine and you'll be flooded with links, some reaching back to the…
Building Space Telescopes… In Space
When it comes to telescopes, bigger is better. That’s true down here on Earth, and it’s especially true out in…
WFIRST Gets its Coronagraph, to Block the Light of Stars and Reveal Their Planets
The coronagraph instrument, which will help NASA's WFIRST mission to search for exoplanets, just passed a major milestone!
NASA is Investigating a Self-Assembling Space Telescope
As part of the 2018 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NAIC) program, a team of scientists from across the US was…
Dream About the Future of Big Telescopes; Monster Space Telescopes That Could Fly by the 2030s
At the recent 2020 Decadal Survey for Astrophysics, four next-generation space telescopes were selected for future development
Rise of the Super Telescopes: The Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor (LUVOIR) aka Hubble 2.0
NASA's LUVOIR, the Large Ultraviolet, Optical, and Infrared Surveyor, is the future of Super Telescopes. It's 15m mirror will dwarf…
Rise of the Super Telescopes: The James Webb Space Telescope
The eagerly anticipated James Webb Space Telescope will be the first of the Super Telescopes to start work.
100,000 Galaxies, and No Obvious Signs of Life
Beam us up, Scotty. There's no signs of intelligent life out there. At least, no obvious signs, according to a…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 329: Telescope Making, Part 3: Space Telescopes
As we’ve said before, all telescopes really want to be in space. In part 3 of our series on amateur…