Lord Ba'al
Well Known GateFan
Since we have the random banter thread, I've noticed that I've posted quite a bit of tweets there by World and Science and also by Universal-Sci which are somehow related to new developments and discoveries in the field of space research, so I thought I might as well start putting those together in a thread of their own. Just the new ones mind you, I'm not going through all the former stuff to re-post it here.
Let's start with this nice new tweet about the WFIRST space telescope. It is set to "replace" the Hubble space telescope within about a year or two they hope. Apparently it'll be armed with a 300 megapixel camera which should enable it to take nice sharp pictures. It'll also sport a coronagraph which will block out light from stars so that it can take pictures of exoplanets. I find that mighty interesting. It's main mission though is to study dark matter/dark energy, but the side mission will be research into exoplanets.
Let's start with this nice new tweet about the WFIRST space telescope. It is set to "replace" the Hubble space telescope within about a year or two they hope. Apparently it'll be armed with a 300 megapixel camera which should enable it to take nice sharp pictures. It'll also sport a coronagraph which will block out light from stars so that it can take pictures of exoplanets. I find that mighty interesting. It's main mission though is to study dark matter/dark energy, but the side mission will be research into exoplanets.
