NASA starts work on new WFIRST telescope
Q. NASA has commenced work on a new telescope 100 times bigger than Hubble in viewing capacity called WFIRST. What does WFIRST stand for?- Published on 22 Feb 16a. Wide Field International Survey Telescope
b. Wide Field Internal Survey Telescope
c. Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope
d. None of the above
ANSWER: Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope
NASA has commenced work on a new telescope with a 100 times bigger view than Hubble Space Telescope to help explore possibility of alien life and the potential of dark matter. The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope will help researchers to explore the cosmos evolution according to NASA. It will also help in discovering new worlds outside the solar system and advance research for worlds that can sustain human life. Mission was led by NASA’s Maryland Goddard Space Flight Centre. Its Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, CA will manage the 2.4 meter telescope of the mission. It will also deliver the coronagraph which is used to visualise and categorise planets across other stars. WFIRST has the same potential to discover the mysteries of the universe as Hubble and will be the next major observatory to be launched in mid 2020s since the setting up on the James Web Space Telescope in 2018.
