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onsdag, augusti 15, 2012

Welcoming Webb's Latest Instrument

Welcoming Webb's Latest Instrument
August 14, 2012

Welcoming Webb's Latest Instrument
Hubble's successor is coming together. The second of the James Webb Space Telescope's four instruments, the Fine Guidance Sensor/Near-Infrared Slitless spectrograph (FGS/NIRISS) has arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
The Canadian Space Agency developed and built FGS/NIRISS, which will both help point the telescope and study stars and the planets forming around them. NASA has a feature describing FGS/NIRISS' capabilities, and you can see the instrument as it was being constructed in HubbleSite's "Canada's Dynamic Duo" episode of the "Behind the Webb" video series.
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