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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Has Passed Its First Significant Mission Milestone 2014
Feb 10, 2014(Phys.org) —NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has passed its first significant mission milestone for 2014—a Spacecraft Critical Design Review (SCDR) that examined the telescope's power, communications and pointing control ...
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The First of a Set of Unprecedented, Super-Deep Views of The Universe
Jan 7, 2014The first of a set of unprecedented, super-deep views of the universe from an ambitious collaborative program called The Frontier Fields is being released today at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C. ...
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Weather Forecasters on Exoplanet GJ 1214b Would Have an Easy Job
Jan 2, 2014Weather forecasters on exoplanet GJ 1214b would have an easy job. Today's forecast: cloudy. Tomorrow: overcast. Extended outlook: more clouds. A team of scientists led by researchers in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the ...
Tags: exoplanet GJ 1214b, weather forecast, super-Earth class planet, Hubble
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NASA's Proposed $17.7 Billion Budget Includes Plans to Capture and Redirect an Asteroid
Apr 12, 2013NASA's proposed $17.7 billion budget includes plans to capture and redirect an asteroid into orbit around Earth so astronauts can study it. Ultimately, the project looks to learn more about the makeup of asteroids in an attempt to protect ...
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ESO Council Votes for Go-Ahead of Project to Build The World's Largest Telescope
Jun 12, 2012European Extremely Large Telescope'approved'12 Jun 2012 European Southern Observatory(ESO)council votes for provisional go-ahead of project to build the world's largest telescope. A project to build what will be by far the world's ...