What do you think the next generation of telescopes will be?
What do you think the next generation of Telescopes will be? What can’t be done noe that needs to be done? Will the cost really be worth it?
There are several major telescopes in development that will be deployed in space. They will be visual, radio, interferometry, and infrared functions.
On earth we have the world’s largest reflector in production. The main mirror will be 100 meters wide.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2548103.stm
giant space-based interferometers.
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There are several major telescopes in development that will be deployed in space. They will be visual, radio, interferometry, and infrared functions.
On earth we have the world’s largest reflector in production. The main mirror will be 100 meters wide.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2548103.stm
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http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/
http://www.firstscience.com/site/articles/henbest2.asp
Here’s what the next generation of telescopes will look like:
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/
The James Webb Space Telescope is currently being built.
I hope this helps.
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What we can’t do right now is to conduct frequent and systematic surveys of the entire sky. Astronomers spend most of their time studying the unusual…those things that stick out like a sore thumb (as it were). But a lot of what really needs to be done is the mundane grunt work of establishing the bigger picture of normality in the universe.
The reason we can’t do that is because current telescopes would require months, if not years, to look at everything in the sky. On top of that, acquiring telescope time is both expensive and competitive…there just isn’t enough to go around. Demand exceeds supply by about eight times.
Ergo, the next generation of telescopes may well be automated survey telescopes which methodically image the heavens. Already existing in the category is the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Telescope, which has the immense goal of mapping the large-scale structure of the universe. Up and coming is the LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) which will have the capability to scan the entire sky (visible to it) every three days. Its task will be to find anything that moves or changes in brightness. The most obvious potential for that would be the search for asteroids that could present a hazard to Earth…but would also be useful for finding trans-Neptunian objects and in the study of variable stars.
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Many next-generation telescopes will search for extrasolar planets (planets that orbit other stars). Many telescopes will search for Earth-sized extrasolar planets, in hopes of finding life on those planets.
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