print email comment close The James Webb Space Telescope URL: http://www.jwst.nasa.gov Description: Background and updates about the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST, formerly called the Next Generation Space Telescope), a "large, infrared-optimized space telescope, scheduled for launch in 2013. JWST will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy." Covers technologies, scientific instruments, science themes, and other aspects of this telescope that "has been called the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope." From NASA. Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Extra Keywords NGST European Space Agency ESA Canadian Space Agency CSA LII Database Information: Record 23182 created by Jennifer English on 01/15/2007 Last modification on 01/16/2007 Published: 01/17/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23182