Posted on 11/18/2014 2:32:23 PM PST by zeestephen
Inside a very big and very clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., nearly 30 workers dressed in white protective suits, goggles and blue booties cluster around the parts of a time machine. These parts — gold-covered mirrors, tennis-court-size sun shields, delicate infrared cameras — are slowly being put together to become the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Perhaps they could use it to find a “peaceful islamicist”...
The darker part of space is located between dark matter and dark energy. It is called dark light.
Guess what they’re going to find?
More of the same.
The universe is that big.
They are going to launch this on a French rocket! Give me a break! I hope it’s insured for 20billion. Probably what it would cost to build it again!
I don’t even know why people post science threads on Free Republic.
You must be referring to that”accepted science that the other side so embraces”¿ Ebola suites look a lot like Klan robes too as a side.
Obama and his muslim outreach, and the treasonist democrats, have ruined it all for me.
I don’t see the folks at NASA having any more credibility than the drones that work at my local postoffice.
Not exactly, not in the Hubble sense. Hubble orbits the earth, Webb will orbit the sun, and at a much more distant orbit than HST. This gives JW much better advantages. BTW, taking us further means reaching out optically far beyond HST.
Trying to decipher this. The telescope will be three times as far from the earth as the Moon? It will stay virtually a fixed distance from the Earth? And will orbit the Sun in tandem with the Earth?
Yep, when it comes to that subject, I personally all but gave up posting threads here.
Oh well.
See diagram at #32
Thank you. It’s hard not to get beat to the punch around here.
CC
Sorry, beat you to it.
CC
Yeah, that is what I am referencing. I think I have it sorted out. Believe it or not, that diagram has “Webb” spelled wrong (where it says “Web circles sun”). I foolishly let that throw me. I didn’t know what “Web circles sun” was supposed to mean. Is this the first time an artificial satellite has been put in orbit around the sun?
Only L4 and L5 are stable in three dimensions.
Telescope, schmelescope ... what sort of shirts are the males working on this project wearing? Do they depict the hetero-normative, patriarchal, “War On Women” by straight white males?
If you combine the Hubble telescope and the Webb telescope you get the Webb Hubble telescope. This new telescope is rumored to be the father of the Chelsea Clinton telescope.
GRrr, I should have read the whole thread before I posted my Webb-Hubble joke.
Just how do you find “a darker part of space”?
First, you position the observatory 930,000 miles away from the Earth to minimize the amount of “Earth Shine” which can come into the instrument’s view. Second, you put the observatory into an orbit around the L2 Lagrangian Point, so the observatory avoids the Earth’s shadow and potential eclipses of the Sun and Moon which could interfere with observations due to variations in the ambient infrared and light backgrounds. Such a position also minimizes exposure to the reflected light from the changing Moon phases. This also keeps the Earth and the Sun together behind the observatory’s sun shade as the Earth and the observatory orbit together around the Sun.
” Is this the first time an artificial satellite has been put in orbit around the sun?”
No, certainly not.
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