That's right, NASA has decided to name their new orbiting space telescope after yours truly (or maybe it's in honor of the second director of the space agency who carried out Kennedy's promise of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth; I actually wasn't reading the article too closely). Either way though, it sounds pretty sweet:
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope, scheduled for launch in 2013. JWST will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy. JWST will peer through dusty clouds to see stars forming planetary systems, connecting the Milky Way to our own Solar System. JWST's instruments will be designed to work primarily in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum, with some capability in the visible range.Edwin Hubble was a near-sighted punk, man.JWST will have a large mirror, 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) in diameter and a sunshield the size of a tennis court. Both the mirror and sunshade won't fit onto the rocket fully open, so both will fold up and open only once JWST is in outer space. JWST will reside in an orbit about 1.5 million km (1 million miles) from the Earth.
4 comments:
That is funny!
I think it's pretty cool but with this telescope and the junior senator from Virginia, it's utterly useless googling myself anymore.
Was there ever a chance when you showed up in Google? I have never had one.
I'm not sure as I never Googled myself (that sounds dirty, huh?) prior to having this blog but if you Google James Webb and Brain Rage, it's the first thing up. So I guess this blog is my online identity for at least the near future.
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