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02-03-2015 04:09 PM CET

europeanspaceagency posted a photo:
Comet 67P on 26 February
This four-image mosaic comprises taken from a distance of 94.3 km from the centre of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 26 February. The image resolution is 8.0 m/pixel and the individual 1024 x 1024 frames measure 8.2 km across. The mosaic measures 14.6 × 14.7 km.

More information and the original image via the blog: CometWatch: Sideways - CometWatch 26 February

Credit: ESA - European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Copyright Notice:
This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) licence. The user is allowed to reproduce, distribute, adapt, translate and publicly perform this publication, without explicit permission, provided that the content is accompanied by an acknowledgement that the source is credited as 'ESA - European Space Agency’, a direct link to the licence text is provided and that it is clearly indicated if changes were made to the original content. Adaptation/translation/derivatives must be distributed under the same licence terms as this publication. The user must not give any suggestion that ESA necessarily endorses the modifications that you have made. No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material. To view a copy of this license, please visit creativecommons.org/
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02-03-2015 04:07 PM CET

europeanspaceagency posted a photo:
Comet 67P on 26 February - NAVCAM [D]
One of four NAVCAM images taken from a distance of 94.3 km from the centre of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 26 February. The image resolution is 8.0 m/pixel and the individual 1024 x 1024 frames measure 8.2 km across. The mosaic measures 14.6 × 14.7 km.

More information and the original image via the blog: CometWatch: Sideways - CometWatch 26 February

Credit: ESA - European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Copyright Notice:
This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) licence. The user is allowed to reproduce, distribute, adapt, translate and publicly perform this publication, without explicit permission, provided that the content is accompanied by an acknowledgement that the source is credited as 'ESA - European Space Agency’, a direct link to the licence text is provided and that it is clearly indicated if changes were made to the original content. Adaptation/translation/derivatives must be distributed under the same licence terms as this publication. The user must not give any suggestion that ESA necessarily endorses the modifications that you have made. No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material. To view a copy of this license, please visit creativecommons.org/
licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/
02-03-2015 04:06 PM CET

europeanspaceagency posted a photo:
Comet 67P on 26 February - NAVCAM [C]
One of four NAVCAM images taken from a distance of 94.3 km from the centre of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 26 February. The image resolution is 8.0 m/pixel and the individual 1024 x 1024 frames measure 8.2 km across. The mosaic measures 14.6 × 14.7 km.

More information and the original image via the blog: CometWatch: Sideways - CometWatch 26 February

Credit: ESA - European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Copyright Notice:
This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) licence. The user is allowed to reproduce, distribute, adapt, translate and publicly perform this publication, without explicit permission, provided that the content is accompanied by an acknowledgement that the source is credited as 'ESA - European Space Agency’, a direct link to the licence text is provided and that it is clearly indicated if changes were made to the original content. Adaptation/translation/derivatives must be distributed under the same licence terms as this publication. The user must not give any suggestion that ESA necessarily endorses the modifications that you have made. No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material. To view a copy of this license, please visit creativecommons.org/
licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/
02-03-2015 04:06 PM CET

europeanspaceagency posted a photo:
Comet 67P on 26 February - NAVCAM [A]
One of four NAVCAM images taken from a distance of 94.3 km from the centre of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 26 February. The image resolution is 8.0 m/pixel and the individual 1024 x 1024 frames measure 8.2 km across. The mosaic measures 14.6 × 14.7 km.

More information and the original image via the blog: CometWatch: Sideways - CometWatch 26 February

Credit: ESA - European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Copyright Notice:
This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) licence. The user is allowed to reproduce, distribute, adapt, translate and publicly perform this publication, without explicit permission, provided that the content is accompanied by an acknowledgement that the source is credited as 'ESA - European Space Agency’, a direct link to the licence text is provided and that it is clearly indicated if changes were made to the original content. Adaptation/translation/derivatives must be distributed under the same licence terms as this publication. The user must not give any suggestion that ESA necessarily endorses the modifications that you have made. No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material. To view a copy of this license, please visit creativecommons.org/
licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/
02-03-2015 04:06 PM CET

europeanspaceagency posted a photo:
Comet 67P on 26 February - NAVCAM [B]
One of four NAVCAM images taken from a distance of 94.3 km from the centre of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 26 February. The image resolution is 8.0 m/pixel and the individual 1024 x 1024 frames measure 8.2 km across. The mosaic measures 14.6 × 14.7 km.

More information and the original image via the blog: CometWatch: Sideways - CometWatch 26 February

Credit: ESA - European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Copyright Notice:
This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) licence. The user is allowed to reproduce, distribute, adapt, translate and publicly perform this publication, without explicit permission, provided that the content is accompanied by an acknowledgement that the source is credited as 'ESA - European Space Agency’, a direct link to the licence text is provided and that it is clearly indicated if changes were made to the original content. Adaptation/translation/derivatives must be distributed under the same licence terms as this publication. The user must not give any suggestion that ESA necessarily endorses the modifications that you have made. No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material. To view a copy of this license, please visit creativecommons.org/
licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/
02-03-2015 04:06 PM CET

europeanspaceagency posted a photo:
Comet 67P on 26 February - NAVCAM
This four-image mosaic comprises images taken from a distance of 94.3 km from the centre of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 26 February. The image resolution is 8.0 m/pixel and the individual 1024 x 1024 frames measure 8.2 km across. The mosaic measures 14.6 × 14.7 km.

More information and the original image via the blog: CometWatch: Sideways - CometWatch 26 February

Credit: ESA - European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Copyright Notice:
This work is licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) licence. The user is allowed to reproduce, distribute, adapt, translate and publicly perform this publication, without explicit permission, provided that the content is accompanied by an acknowledgement that the source is credited as 'ESA - European Space Agency’, a direct link to the licence text is provided and that it is clearly indicated if changes were made to the original content. Adaptation/translation/derivatives must be distributed under the same licence terms as this publication. The user must not give any suggestion that ESA necessarily endorses the modifications that you have made. No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material. To view a copy of this license, please visit creativecommons.org/
licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/
02-03-2015 11:30 AM CET

europeanspaceagency posted a photo:
Simulating space for JWST’s four infrared instruments
Building a space telescope is no mean feat. Conditions here on Earth are drastically different from those experienced in orbit around our planet. How do we know that any telescope built in our controlled laboratories can withstand the harsh environment of space?

Luckily, we can recreate space-like conditions using simulators such as this thermal–vacuum chamber at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, USA. In this image, the chamber is not in action, as shown by the presence of a photographer wielding a torch on the sidelines. When switched on, multiple pumps suck all the air out to create a space-like vacuum, and the temperature can drop to a toe-curlingly low –253°C.

However, the real star of this image is the futuristic gold-coloured frame and its contents. This frame holds the Integrated Science Instrument Module, a structure containing the science instruments for 2018’s James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, successor to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Along with the frame, this module weighs about as much as an elephant and houses four instruments to observe in the infrared, a part of the spectrum that is key for exploring the origins of the Universe and the properties of very distant cosmic objects.

This capability is the reason for the chamber’s extremely low temperature: infrared light is emitted by warm objects. To avoid infrared emissions from the telescope itself interfering with JWST’s observations, the entire telescope must be cooled to very low temperatures.

In space, JWST will make use of a giant sunshield to keep it completely in the shadows. This will keep the telescope at –233°C.

The JWST team hit a milestone last summer as all four science instruments passed their cryogenic testing in this chamber. The three near-infrared units were cooled to around –233°C, while the mid-infrared instrument reached an even lower –266°C, for a total of 116 days. For more information, read here.

After these tests, one of the units – the Near InfraRed Spectrograph – was removed and fitted with new detectors and ‘microshutters’, a new technology to study hundreds of celestial objects simultaneously using minuscule windows the width of a human hair. When this upgraded instrument is returned, the entire module will continue with further environmental tests to reproduce the conditions endured during launch and in space. For more information, read here.

JWST is a joint project of NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency.

Credit:NASA/Goddard/C. Gunn

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