The idea of using servos to aim a telescope isn’t new, but [John]’s build looks so much like a prop from Johnny Mnemomic that we can’t resist posting it. The goal isn’t so much remote control as it is ...
A "selfie" taken by the James Webb Space telescope during the early stages of calibration process. NASA SHARE Focusing a six-ton, $10 billion space telescope isn’t as simple as turning the focus ring ...
Two students have engineered a fix to improve the imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope interferometer. They did this without having to launch a space mission - like NASA did to fix imaging on ...
NASA's NICER telescope halts its mission after a key motor fails; engineers attempt to salvage eight years of space science.
After weeks of microscopic adjustments, NASA unveiled the first fully focused image from the James Webb Space Telescope Wednesday, a razor-sharp engineering photo of a nondescript star in a field of ...
NASA has paused operations of the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) aboard the International Space Station ...
NASA will be launching a new telescope expected to bring black holes and supernovae into unprecedented focus, mission scientists announced Wednesday. The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, a ...