New Infrared Telescope Tops National Academies Priority List

The National Academies is urging NASA to develop and launch a $1.6 billion wide-field infrared survey telescope in 2020. The observatory, dubbed WFIRST, would spend at least five years searching for extrasolar planets and exploring the effect of dark energy on the evolution of the universe. The 1.5...

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