Great+Telescopes

Use this page to record your research about 'Great Telescopes' (as an aside a lot of my work from University is kept under a telescope in the north of England; can any of you identify which one....?). Remember to record your citations on the 'Bibliography' page.

NASA Telescopes help discover a surprisingly young galaxy!

Astronomers have discovered a very young galaxy in the distant universe, with stars thet formed 13.5 billion years ago, 200,000,000 years after the "Big Bang". The Hubble Space Telescope was the first to spot the young galaxy. Observations from the W.M. on Mauna Kea in Hawaii revealed observed light dates to when the Universe was only 950 million years old; the Universe formed about 13.7 billion years ago. Infrared data from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer telescopes says that the stars in the galaxy are really mature and they formed when the Universe was a toddler. This galaxy was not the most distant galaxy ever discovered, but it is the youngest to be observed with such clarity. By: Cporter25

Is there a new great telescope that will succeed the Hubble and Spitzer Telescopes?

There is a new great telescope called the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is scheduled to launch in 2014 that will be able to see distant galaxies that are lacking observation. A successor to NASA's Spitzer and Hubble telescopes, JWST will see infrared light from the missing population of young galaxies like the one that was just discovered by the Spitzer and Hubble telescopes. This glorious new invention will help discover some of the milky way's best kept secrets.The duration of the mission will be about 5-10 years. By: Cporter25 and kali0709