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The James Webb Space Telescope is not circling our planet the way most people imagine a satellite does. Instead, NASA parked ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology astrophysicist Jeyhan Kartaltepe will be one of the first scientists to use NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope soon after it launches in spring 2019. The Webb ...

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.