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Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine is an episode of the four-episode 2023 Netflix documentary series Unknown, about NASA's development and launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. [1] The episode follows the development of the telescope from the 1990s through its 2021 launch and 2022 deployment, and the unveiling of some of the first images from the ...
James Edwin Webb (October 7, 1906 – March 27, 1992) was an American government official who served as Undersecretary of State from 1949 to 1952. He was the second Administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961, to October 7, 1968.
Hubble Space Telescope [41] 2 July 1990: First time a spacecraft coming from deep space uses the Earth for a gravity-assist manoeuvre. ESA Giotto [42] 21 October 1991: First asteroid flyby (951 Gaspra closest approach 1,600 km). USA (NASA) Galileo: 1992 First confirmed observation of an exoplanet. Canada Poland: Aleksander Wolszczan & Dale ...
A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows at least 17 dust rings – resembling a fingerprint – created by a rare type of star and its companion, locked in a celestial dance.
NASA announced in 2002 that it would name its Next Generation Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope. More information about James Webb. More ...
On 27 December 2021, at 60 hours after launch, Webb's rockets fired for nine minutes and 27 seconds to make the second of three mid-course corrections for the telescope to arrive at its L 2 destination. [35] On 28 December 2021, three days after launch, mission controllers began the multi-day deployment of Webb's all-important sunshield.
The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered wondrous imagery and reached numerous milestones with the latest achievement arguably its most important. On Jan. 11, NASA confirmed that researchers ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is an international 21st-century space observatory that was launched on 25 December 2021. [1] [2] It is intended to be the premier observatory of the 2020s, combining the largest mirror yet on a near-infrared space telescope with a suite of technologically advanced instruments from around the world. [3]