"Space Telescope History Project"--Cover. "These items from ... were selected by the Space Telescope History Project, a joint enterprise of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, ...

Under the leadership of George Ellery Hale, the 100-inch mirror for Mount Wilson Observatory's telescope was ordered in 1906, with funding provided sequentially by businessman John Hooker and then ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was launched nearly five years ago, and the first images it revealed made waves across the astronomical world. Those images are still among the most relevant pictures ...

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A team of scientists has estimated that the Hubble Space Telescope could reenter Earth’s atmosphere and meet its fiery demise ...