HUBBLE  TELESCOPE     1. What  is  the  aspect  of  the  light  coming  to  your  eyes  from  distant  stars?   2. Do  the  enormous  distances  it  travels  affect  light?   3. What  is  at  the  origin  of  the  distortion  of  light?   4. What  solution  astronomers  provided?   5. Were  Hubble’s  pictures  of  the  celestial  bodies  a  tremendous  success  first?  What  was  the   problem?   6. What  was  the  solution  provided  by  NASA  and  ESA?   7. In  what  range  of  the  electromagnetic  spectrum  are  Hubble’s  pictures  taken?   8. What  has  Hubble  discovered  since  its  start  in  1990?   9. What  was  the  project  originally  designed  for  the  future  of  Hubble?   10. What  is  new  about  this  project?  You  can  read  the  following  extract  from  the  New  Scientist     Magazine,  July  2011.   NASA is having a rough week. Its iconic shuttle fleet is about to retire without a replacement, and now it looks like the Hubble Space Telescope may not get a successor either. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is designed to seize the baton when the Hubble Space Telescope, which has provided unrivalled views of distant stars, galaxies and planets, reaches the end of its life in a few years. JWST would allow astronomers to check for signatures of life in the atmospheres of exoplanets and to watch the first galaxies forming at the dawn of the universe. But, far over budget and behind schedule, it is a troubled project, attracting the attention of cost cutters in Congress. Now, a key congressional committee has proposed cancelling JWST in a draft 2012 budget for NASA and other government agencies. The budget was released on Wednesday by the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, which creates a draft budget for NASA each year. "The bill ... terminates funding for the James Webb Space Telescope, which is billions of dollars over budget and plagued by poor management," says a press release from the committee. The cancellation is still far from a done deal. The subcommittee's draft budget would need to be approved by the entire Appropriations Committee, then by the House of Representatives as a whole, the Senate, and President Barack Obama before the cancellation becomes final. But given the cost-cutting mood these days in Washington, DC, even a flagship project like JWST is not invulnerable. There are precedents. Ballooning costs led Congress to nix the Superconducting Super Collider particle accelerator in 1993, despite its scientific promise and the billions that had already been spent on it. Losing JWST would be a big blow for astronomy. On the other hand, some astronomers worry that JWST's growing costs are crowding out other potential missions. For example, NASA is struggling to find enough money to pay for a dark energy and exoplanet mission called the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), chosen by a panel of US astronomers as the top priority for the next decade.