James Webb Space Telescope, information, updates and discussion Options

[Redstone]

The manufacture of the JWST mirror blanks has now been completed.

Despite this milestone, the fate of JWST is still somewhat precarious, because although the scientific bang from the telescope is expected to be huge, the bucks required have increased to a staggering $4.5 billion. A Space.com article on the squeeze in NASA's space-based astronomy plans gives some background.

The JWST home page can be found here.

The Space Telescope Science Institute, which runs Hubble, also has a site here. As does ESA.

[antipode]

Candidate giant exoplanets around metal polluted white dwarfs.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.13153.pdf

Given that only 4 WDs were in the survey and they found 2 candidates,
this potentially represents to first of many similar discoveries. WD
planets have been elusive - maybe not any more!

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