From the «WFRIST POST» department:
Title: NASA is Working on a Telescope With an Even Wider Eye than Hubble
Author: takyon
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 12:15:00 -0500
Link: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?s...63208&from=rss

An Anonymous Coward writes:

NASA's working on a telescope with an even wider eye than Hubble[1]

NASA said Thursday that it's getting down to business building a new
telescope[2] that could get us a step closer to finding E.T. and perhaps
reveal other mysteries of the universe along the way.

The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will have capabilities that
make it similar to taking Hubble's telescope and putting a panoramic lens on
it. It will carry a wide-field instrument allowing it to capture images with
the same depth and quality as Hubble, but covering 100 times its field of
view.

In addition to having such a wide view of parts of space, WFIRST will also
sport a coronagraph that can block the glare from individual stars to better
characterize not only planets orbiting those, but the atmospheres of planets
as well.

"It will also develop technology that will pave the way for finding and
characterizing Earth-like planets in the future," said Nikole Lewis of the
Space Telescope Science Institute in a statement[3].

Read more of this story[4] at SoylentNews.

Links:
[1]: http://www.cnet.com/news/nasas-worki...t-hubble-sees/ (link)
[2]: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arc.../2016/06/text/ (link)
[3]: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arc.../2016/06/full/ (link)
[4]: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?s...63208&from=rss (link)


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