Colour it ready - Webb Telescope instrument now at Goddard
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 05:14
in Astronomy & Space
The cosmos is filled with colour, and colour is a key in determining age, chemical composition and how far objects are from Earth. To help identify these colours and objects the James Webb Space Telescope will be using a spectrograph called NIRSpec. Recently, the engineering test unit for the Webb telescope's Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, Greenbelt, Md. from its manufacturer in Germany for preliminary testing...
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