Next Generation Space Telescope

The Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) will study the dawn of the modern universe As currently conceived, the Next Generation Space Telescope will have a reflecting mirror 6 meters in diameter,with almost three times the diameter and seven times the collecting area of the mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Equipped with detectors far more sensitive than those on the HST, the NGST will surpass by 10 times the HST's ability to detect radiation from faint sources. But even more important, the NGST will maintain itself at a temperature much colder than the HST's-only 50 degrees above absolute zero. By doing so,the NGST will observe the cosmos throughout large portions of the infrared spectral domain at sensitivities thousands of times that of any previous telescope. Redshift (the stretching of light by the expansion of the universe) moves the wavelengths of stars at a distance of 10 billion light-years from the visible into the high-sensitivity range of NGST. Thus NGST's capability to make super-sensitive infrared observations will enable it to see galaxies as they were 10 billion years ago in the first moments of their creation.
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Brookhaven National Lab has successfully developed a new pre-injector system, called the Electron Beam Ion Source, for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and NASA Space Radiation Laboratory science programs. The first of several planned improvements to the RHIC facility, EBIS will help transform RHIC into the Quantum Chromo Dynamics Lab that will enable the study of QCD in more detail.