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NGST: Seeing the First Stars and Galaxies Form

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

H.S. Stockman  and
John Mather
H.S. Stockman
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218
John Mather
Affiliation:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 685, Greenbelt, MD 20771

Abstract

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The Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) is a key element in NASA's Origins program. The primary goals for the NGST are observing the origins of stars, galaxies, and the elements that are necessary for life. To reach those goals, the telescope must work in the near and mid-infrared – at wavelengths where the Earth's atmosphere outshines the distant galaxies by up to 8 orders of magnitude. NASA, industry, US astronomers and international collaborators have completed the initial feasibility study and have begun the development of the technologies required to make the mission affordable and ready to launch by 2007.

Type
Perspectives
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 186: Galaxy Interactions at High and Low Redshift , 1999 , pp. 493 - 499
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1999 

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