James Webb Space Telescope begins historic mission

[cqaigy2]

I think i've gotten to the point that i'll block post. I don't usually do that because some people are correct about the time, twice a day. So sometimes you get good and interesting info, but in this case, not any good or interesting info.

 

[ArlyA]

NASA and SpaceX Investigating Hubble Telescope Orbital Reboost To Add Years to Its Operational Life​

TOPICS:Hubble Space TelescopeNASASpaceX

By NASA October 2, 2022

3D animation showing the Hubble Space Telescope over the Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
On Thursday, September 22, NASA and SpaceX signed an unfunded Space Act Agreement to study the feasibility of a SpaceX and Polaris Program idea to boost the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit with the Dragon spacecraft, at no cost to the U.S. government.
There are currently no plans for NASA to conduct or fund a servicing mission or compete this opportunity. Rather, this study is designed to help the agency understand the commercial possibilities.

 

[MossRoad]

NASA and SpaceX Investigating Hubble Telescope Orbital Reboost To Add Years to Its Operational Life​

TOPICS:Hubble Space TelescopeNASASpaceX

By NASA October 2, 2022

3D animation showing the Hubble Space Telescope over the Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
On Thursday, September 22, NASA and SpaceX signed an unfunded Space Act Agreement to study the feasibility of a SpaceX and Polaris Program idea to boost the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit with the Dragon spacecraft, at no cost to the U.S. government.
There are currently no plans for NASA to conduct or fund a servicing mission or compete this opportunity. Rather, this study is designed to help the agency understand the commercial possibilities.

That would be cool to see it keep working.

 

[tradosaurus]

Satellite imagery of the earth and the hubble enterprise.

 

[BravoXray]

That would be cool to see it keep working.

If anyone can do it, SpaceX can. It would be sad to see a historic bit of hardware like Hubble left to burn up on reentry.

Edit:
Link to article in Spacefilght Today about NASA and SpaceX doing a feasability study to re-boost and service the Hubble.

SpaceX, NASA studying commercial crew mission to Hubble Space Telescope – Spaceflight Now

 

[ArlyA]

Oh, this is really a cool video speaking about what the Webb has discovered so far....

 

[dstig1]

If they line up Hubble just right and point it towards earth, could they maybe burn ants with it? Just curious...

 

[MossRoad]

If they line up Hubble just right and point it towards earth, could they maybe burn ants with it? Just curious...

Home tattoo removal.

 

[cqaigy2]

James Webb Telescopes Updates: Exciting New Images and Discoveries

 

[ArlyA]

New Webb telescope image shows ‘lonely’ dwarf galaxy in striking detail


By Jackie Wattles, CNN​

Updated 3:49 PM EST, Wed November 9, 2022

A portion of the dwarf galaxy Wolf--Lundmark--Melotte is shown, as captured by (from left) the Spitzer Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb's image shows far more detail.
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The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a remarkably detailed image of a nearby dwarf galaxy. The near-infrared view reveals the deepest glimpse yet into a stellar panorama that could offer astronomers an ideal means of studying aspects of the early universe.

The image shows a panoply of stars within a lonely dwarf galaxy called Wolf - Lundmark - Melotte, which lies about 3 million light-years from our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and is about one-tenth the size.



Ghostly figures emerge from Pillars of Creation in new Webb telescope image


The WLM galaxy is intriguing to astronomers because it has remained largely isolated and bears a similar chemical makeup to galaxies in the early universe, according to NASA.