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Five Questions about ASTRO-H/Hitomi (and launch videos!)
We were able to get our hands on these “5 questions your neighbor might ask” about the ASTRO-H mission (recently renamed Hitomi), and in particular NASA Goddard’s contributions. Here are the answers,...
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Mirror, Mirror
When last I updated, the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror was under construction here at NASA Goddard. I believe we were on mirror segment number five. I’m very pleased to say that the...
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Looking Back: The Legacy of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory
There are great observatories – and then there are “Great Observatories,” a title given to four space telescopes launched in the 1990s/early 2000s, each studying a different wavelength of light. The...
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Sweet Update on the James Webb Space Telescope
We gave you all an update on the progress of the James Webb Space Telescope mirror assembly not long ago. But there have also been exciting updates on JWST’s flight instruments as well. They just...
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The James Webb Space Telescope and the Big Bang: A Q&A with Nobel Laureate...
As the person at the other end of the James Webb Space Telescope social media, I answer a lot of questions. One big area of interest is always the Big Bang. And that’s for obvious reasons – there’s a...
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Why not study all wavelengths of light with one telescope?
I was recently asked why the James Webb Space Telescope (a large infrared observatory) won’t have X-ray or gamma-ray detectors on board. Wouldn’t it be good for such a telescope to be able to see more...
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Explore @ NASA Goddard redux
It’s a Thursday, and we are throwing back to September! Why? Because we never got around to reporting back on the huge NASA Goddard Open House, where we threw open our gates and 20,000 members of the...
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Color Your Own Worlds
Though we just missed National Coloring Book Day, we wanted to bring this cool educational product to your attention. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission just put out an exoplanet...
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Bringing History into Focus: Inside A Moment with a NASA Photographer and...
Today we have a special guest blog written by Laura Betz about two of our talented co-workers – I’ll let Laura introduce herself! – Maggie I’m Laura Betz, and I work on the James Webb Space Telescope...
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The Truth About Hubble, JWST, and False Color
I get a lot of questions asking why the James Webb Space Telescope is infrared, and how its images can hope to compare to the (primarily) optical Hubble Space Telescope. Why would NASA build something...
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