NASA Science Mission Directorate Technology Highlight: Advanced technology micro-shutters enable NASA to study galaxy evolution across cosmic time.

2021 Annual Report

Nasa launched its experimental Fortis (Far-ultraviolet Off Rowland-circle Telescope for Imaging and Spectroscopy) telescope on 28 October from the White Sands missile range in New Mexico.

NASA scientists plan to demonstrate a revolutionary technology for studying hundreds of stars and galaxies at the same time — a new capability originally created for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA scientists plan to demonstrate a revolutionary technology for studying hundreds of stars and galaxies at the same time — a new capability originally created for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA technologists have hurdled a number of significant technological challenges in their quest to improve an already revolutionary observing technology originally created for the James Webb Space Telescope.

The Hubble Space Telescope currently provides the sharpest views of the cosmos, with imagery hearkening back in time to an era shortly after the birth of stars and galaxies.

NASA engineers and scientists have created something that will give better information about far away galaxies. This new creation, which will be in a future space telescope, is so tiny that it's the width of a few hairs.