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After years of delays, the James Webb Space Telescope may actually launch this year, having passed a final mission analysis review, we re told.
Work began on the space telescope, once called the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), in 1996 with a planned launch date of 2007. That slipped almost immediately due to budget cuts and technological problems. An influx of funding helped get it closer on track, though the project just has this darn habit of blowing past deadlines, even to this day.
In the past year, the mission to launch the $10bn space observatory, the most advanced of its kind, has suffered multiple setbacks amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As the novel coronavirus spread around the world, work on the telescope was paused as scientists and engineers at NASA were sent home under shelter-in-place orders.
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NASA s Hubble Space Telescope was able to capture various photo versions of Jupiter s atmosphere using different colors of light. Some people find one of these captured images scary since they claim it looks like hell.
(Photo : Photo by Lynette Cook/NASA/Getty Images) This artist s conceptual drawing released June 13, 2002 depicts a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting the star, 55 Cancri, about 41 light years from Earth. A possible moon around the planet is shown because such moons are thought to be common around this type of planet, but no moon has been detected.
The new images of Jupiter came from the Gemini North and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. They were able to capture the giant gas planet s atmosphere in infrared, ultraviolet wavelengths, and visible light.
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