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    The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. Its high-resolution and high-sensitivity instruments...
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    Space Telescope (which covers the infrared bands). The mid-IR-to-visible band successor to the Hubble telescope is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)...
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    NIRSpec (category James Webb Space Telescope instruments)
    instruments flown on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The JWST is the follow-on mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and is developed to...
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    Astronomy". arXiv:1507.04779 [astro-ph.IM]. "FAQ Full General Public Webb Telescope/NASA". jwst.nasa.gov. 2002-09-10. Retrieved 2022-09-27. "Concepts and...
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    Great Observatories program (category Spitzer Space Telescope)
    ultraviolet images of closer galaxies, allowing direct comparison. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched in December 2021 and works simultaneously with...
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    ground-based telescopes, and is a high contrast imaging mode on the James Webb Space Telescope. This technique allows ground-based telescopes to reach the...
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    Goddard Space Flight Center and is Senior Project Scientist of the James Webb Space Telescope. She was selected one of Nature's 10 Ones to Watch in 2021 and...
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    ARIEL (category Space telescopes)
    composition and thermal structures. Compared to the James Webb Space Telescope, ARIEL will be a much smaller telescope and have more observing time available for...
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    Coronagraph (category Optical telescope components)
    As examples, imaging instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope offer coronagraphic capability. A band-limited coronagraph...
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    various space astronomy projects including the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, and several major planet probes have cost considerably...
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