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NASA Builds A Time-Machine Telescope 100 Times As Powerful As The Hubble
MSN.com ^ | 18 November 2014 | Eric Niler

Posted on 11/18/2014 2:32:23 PM PST by zeestephen

Inside a very big and very clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., nearly 30 workers dressed in white protective suits, goggles and blue booties cluster around the parts of a time machine. These parts — gold-covered mirrors, tennis-court-size sun shields, delicate infrared cameras — are slowly being put together to become the James Webb Space Telescope.

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KEYWORDS: astronomy; jameswebb; nasa; telescope; xplanets
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To: PROCON

Perhaps they could use it to find a “peaceful islamicist”...


41 posted on 11/18/2014 5:04:17 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: InterceptPoint

The darker part of space is located between dark matter and dark energy. It is called dark light.


42 posted on 11/18/2014 5:05:15 PM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: zeestephen

Guess what they’re going to find?

More of the same.

The universe is that big.


43 posted on 11/18/2014 5:06:03 PM PST by lurk
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To: dragnet2

They are going to launch this on a French rocket! Give me a break! I hope it’s insured for 20billion. Probably what it would cost to build it again!


44 posted on 11/18/2014 5:10:45 PM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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To: Drew68

I don’t even know why people post science threads on Free Republic.
You must be referring to that”accepted science that the other side so embraces”¿ Ebola suites look a lot like Klan robes too as a side.


45 posted on 11/18/2014 5:19:56 PM PST by Recompennation (Constitutional protection for all not ju st selectively for Democrats.)
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To: zeestephen

Obama and his muslim outreach, and the treasonist democrats, have ruined it all for me.

I don’t see the folks at NASA having any more credibility than the drones that work at my local postoffice.


46 posted on 11/18/2014 5:27:35 PM PST by Gator113 ( Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mike Lee, Jeff Sessions and Trey Gowdy speak for me, most everyone else is j)
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To: Safrguns
Oh... so its not an orbital scope like hubble?

Not exactly, not in the Hubble sense. Hubble orbits the earth, Webb will orbit the sun, and at a much more distant orbit than HST. This gives JW much better advantages. BTW, taking us further means reaching out optically far beyond HST.

47 posted on 11/18/2014 5:28:40 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

Trying to decipher this. The telescope will be three times as far from the earth as the Moon? It will stay virtually a fixed distance from the Earth? And will orbit the Sun in tandem with the Earth?


48 posted on 11/18/2014 5:32:00 PM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: Drew68; KoRn

Yep, when it comes to that subject, I personally all but gave up posting threads here.

Oh well.


49 posted on 11/18/2014 5:32:24 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: HandyDandy

See diagram at #32


50 posted on 11/18/2014 5:34:03 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: zeestephen
This is actually the second James Webb Space Telescope. The original was designed to dock to the Hubble Space Telescope. Sadly, only a single image was produced by Webb-Hubble before the mirrors broke:


51 posted on 11/18/2014 5:34:20 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: Poison Pill; GreenHornet

Thank you. It’s hard not to get beat to the punch around here.

CC


52 posted on 11/18/2014 5:35:51 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (stercus accidit)
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To: Dr.Deth

Sorry, beat you to it.

CC


53 posted on 11/18/2014 5:39:24 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (stercus accidit)
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To: dragnet2

Yeah, that is what I am referencing. I think I have it sorted out. Believe it or not, that diagram has “Webb” spelled wrong (where it says “Web circles sun”). I foolishly let that throw me. I didn’t know what “Web circles sun” was supposed to mean. Is this the first time an artificial satellite has been put in orbit around the sun?


54 posted on 11/18/2014 5:41:51 PM PST by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: zeestephen
There are 5 Lagrange points in the sun-earth orbital dynamics. L2 has the earth between the telescope and the sun. L2 is semi-stable (in 2 dimensions) and a minimum of fuel will be needed for positional adjustments, but it is too far for any repair missions, even if we still had shuttles.

Only L4 and L5 are stable in three dimensions.

55 posted on 11/18/2014 6:02:32 PM PST by lagrange point1 (Space is no longer the final frontier)
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To: zeestephen

Telescope, schmelescope ... what sort of shirts are the males working on this project wearing? Do they depict the hetero-normative, patriarchal, “War On Women” by straight white males?


56 posted on 11/18/2014 6:05:15 PM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: zeestephen

If you combine the Hubble telescope and the Webb telescope you get the Webb Hubble telescope. This new telescope is rumored to be the father of the Chelsea Clinton telescope.


57 posted on 11/18/2014 6:09:15 PM PST by Sawdring
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To: Celtic Conservative

GRrr, I should have read the whole thread before I posted my Webb-Hubble joke.


58 posted on 11/18/2014 6:12:21 PM PST by Sawdring
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To: InterceptPoint

Just how do you find “a darker part of space”?

First, you position the observatory 930,000 miles away from the Earth to minimize the amount of “Earth Shine” which can come into the instrument’s view. Second, you put the observatory into an orbit around the L2 Lagrangian Point, so the observatory avoids the Earth’s shadow and potential eclipses of the Sun and Moon which could interfere with observations due to variations in the ambient infrared and light backgrounds. Such a position also minimizes exposure to the reflected light from the changing Moon phases. This also keeps the Earth and the Sun together behind the observatory’s sun shade as the Earth and the observatory orbit together around the Sun.


59 posted on 11/18/2014 6:33:09 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: HandyDandy

” Is this the first time an artificial satellite has been put in orbit around the sun?”

No, certainly not.


60 posted on 11/18/2014 6:38:19 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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