Telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope can observe some incredibly distant galaxies, stretching all the ...

What did the new space telescope see in deep space? James Webb is the largest extraterrestrial telescope in history. Its primary mirror consists of 18 hexagonal segments with a total width of 6.5 ...

Then the team integrated the Optical Telescope Assembly, which includes a 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) primary mirror ... 10 times more so than NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and 100 times more ...

Airborne delivered two mirror support structures for the FYST and SOLAT telescopes, assembling assembling 26,300 components.

A technician stands before six gold-plated mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mirror. The JWST's infrared viewing capability allows it see through much of the dust that ...

An international team of physicists, led in the UK by our Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, has discovered over 40 ...

The international team used observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... spiral into an elongated shape – like a "hall of mirrors" of cosmic proportions. Using the technique ...

Looking halfway across the observable universe and expecting to see individual stars is considered a non-starter in astronomy ...

Future telescopes like James Webb and Gaia ... for replacing damaged mirrors to avoid wasting costly investments. Repair spacecraft must avoid damaging delicate telescope structures during docking.

"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...