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24 March 2010
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 Telescope folks have put together this impressive preview of things to come. If you really want to pump it up, watch in in HD (mouse-over the little box on the bottom right that says [...]
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19 March 2009
JWST Will Provide Capability to Search for Biomarkers on Earth-like Worlds
Does another Earth exist somewhere in our galaxy? With the recent lauch of the Kepler spacecraft, astronomers are getting closer and closer to finding an Earth-sized planet in an Earth-like orbit. But once that search succeeds, the next questions driving research will be: Is that planet habitable? Does it have an Earth-like atmosphere? Answering those [...]
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19 March 2009
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, JWST has been touted as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. With it, astronomers hope to look back in time to when the universe was just 200 million years old, and see [...]
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13 February 2008
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 earliest stars (formed from coalescing primordial gas clouds) were not dense enough to support fusion reactions in their cores. Something within the young suns was counteracting the collapsing gas clouds, preventing the core reactions from [...]
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