The Next Generation Space Telescope

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Dec 2000

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The Institute of Space and Astronautical Science Report SP No. 14, p. 203-209.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Infrared Instruments, Infrared Telescope, Galaxy Formation, Early Universe, Star Formation

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The NGST (Next Generation Space Telescope), scheduled for launch in 2009, will be a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. It will cover the range from 0.6 to 28 micron with an 8 m radiatively cooled telescope, carrying cameras and spectrometers. It will study infrared light because the expanding universe redshifts the main stellar luminosity into the near IR, because many cool objects emit only infrared, and because infrared can penetrate opaque dust clouds to show the processes of star formation and obscured galactic nuclei. It will orbit around the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2. It is a joint project of the NASA, ESA, and CSA, and scientific operations will be provided by the Space Telescope Science Institute.

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