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Seeing the Universebefore 1610 - naked eye astronomy1608 - Galileo's hand held telescopes 1673 - Hevelius' long telescopes 1780 - Herschel's large reflectors 1838 - Meridian Circles 1845 - Rosse's Leviathian 1890 - Barnard's camera 1923 - The Hooker 100 inch 1948 - The Palomar 200 inch 1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope 1998 - The Keck 10 metre pair 2000 - The VLT array 2015 - JWST Plans 201? - OWL Plans How much further? Astronomers are planning the replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope - The James Webb Space Telescope. It will be launched in 2015. It will orbit the Sun, far from Earth, at a lagrangian point. It will be powerful enough to resolve earth like planets around nearby stars as points of light. Some preliminary designs are shown here. The James Webb Space Telescope |
NGST proposals (STScI) |