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The Future of Astronomy: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
An anonymous reader writes: In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched and deployed, becoming the first space-based observatory. In the years since, many others have followed, covering the entire electromagnetic spectrum, but with nothing superseding Hubble over the wavelengths it covers. That will all change with the James Webb Space Telescope, currently on schedule and almost ready for its October 2018 launch date. The science instruments are all complete, the final mirrors are being inserted into the optical assembly, the sunshield (a new, innovative component) is almost complete, and then it just needs assembly and launch. When it's all said and done, JWST will be orders of magnitude greater than all the other observatories that came before, and will finally allow us to truly see the first stars, galaxies and quasars in the Universe, not limited by the obscuring neutral gas that currently blocks our view with other observatories.
Don't click the link. It's forbes. it won't work uunless you disable adblock, and if you do it'll install malware.
(It's Ethan, the goatblower with the shaved head and the beard, if you hadn't guessed)
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Why would you post a link to Forbes? It gives me some crap about disabling my ad-blocker (yeah, right) and not letting me see the content unless I do so. As far as I'm concerned it is the same as paywalled. Either find another source or don't post it. Oh, right, it's Timmy.
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There's only one article I'm interested in: How much is StartsWithABang paying Dice to constantly post every one of his damn blogs? We've got 2 in one day now. Is this a subscription service, or do you pay by the submission? Does it cost extra to hide the poster as an Anonymous Coward? Is the cost proportional to the amount of hate they get?