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[SM] the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST)
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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) -- Posting to comp.misc, sci.misc, and misc.news.internet.discuss |
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