From The Archives: Next Generation Space Telescope

Using its sunshade to help keep its infrared detectors near absolute zero, the Next Generation Space Telescope peers back to an era just after the Big Bang. 

A primordial galaxy is represented in this artist's concept as a visble image on the spacecraft's segmented mirror. (Painting by Pat Rawlings). In the feature on page 62, we report that NASA must advance the state of the art for the Next Generation Space Telescope to see "cosmic dark ages". 

See the cover and read the full issue dated  August 28, 2000.

Read the feature on page 62.

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