The vast, unobstructed skies that gave Big Sky, Montana its name made for ... infinite vistas visible to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). As the location of the "First Day of Issue" for ...
PASADENA, Calif. — Shaped like a megaphone, the newest NASA telescope the will map the entire sky in infrared light to answer big questions about the universe. Expected to launch no earlier than ...
Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016. Rubin’s work persuaded astronomers of the existence of dark matter ...