12.03.12 - Engineers got a first-hand look at how the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield would fold around the observatory while stored in the rocket..
11.30.12 - The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured an impressive image of the irregular galaxy NGC 5253, the nearest of the compact blue dwarf galaxies.
11.29.12 - The combined imaging power of Hubble and Jansky VLA are shown in this image of spectacular jets powered by a super massive black hole.
11.28.12 - The sole secondary mirror and a third primary mirror segment that will fly aboard the Webb telescope are now in a NASA clean room.
11.28.12 - A jet of X-rays from a supermassive black hole 12.4 billion light years from Earth has been detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
11.27.12 - Astronomers have discovered vast comet belts surrounding two nearby planetary systems known to host only Earth-to-Neptune-mass worlds.
11.21.12 - Not a cold-weather beverage, COCOA is a piece of equipment that will measure the accuracy of the Webb telescope's primary mirror.
11.21.12 - Nobel laureate and Webb telescope Project Scientist John Mather will answer astrophysics questions on Reddit.com on Nov. 26 at 1 p.m. EST.
11.21.12 - Hubble spotted the spiral galaxy ESO 499-G37, seen here against a backdrop of distant galaxies, scattered with nearby stars.
11.20.12 - The Planck space telescope has made the first conclusive detection of a bridge of hot gas connecting a pair of galaxy clusters across 10 million light-years of intergalactic space.