National Academies of Sciences

September 24, 2020October 26, 2023

Why Not Assemble Space Telescopes In Space?

As we grow more ambitious in our desires to see further and more precisely in space, the need for larger and larger telescope mirrors becomes inevitable. Only with collection of significantly more photons by a super large mirror can the the quality of the "seeing" significantly improve. The largest mirror in space now is the …

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September 5, 2018March 18, 2019

A National Strategy for Finding and Understanding Exoplanets (and Possibly Extraterrestrial Life)

An extensive, congressionally-directed study of what NASA needs to effectively learn how exoplanets form and whether some may support life was released today, and it calls for major investments in next-generation space and ground telescopes. It also calls for the adoption of an increasingly multidisciplinary approach for addressing the innumerable questions that remain unanswered. …

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