Open AccessDoes ultraviolet astronomy have a future?
Author(s) -
Barstow Martin
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
astronomy & geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-4004
pISSN - 1366-8781
DOI - 10.1046/j.1468-4004.2003.45510.x
Subject(s) - spectrograph , astronomy , ultraviolet , physics , spitzer space telescope , hubble space telescope , agency (philosophy) , space telescope imaging spectrograph , telescope , astrobiology , optics , galaxy , sociology , social science , spectral line
Recent news of the cancellation of further servicing missions for HST and the recent failure of its prime UV spectrograph has brought into focus the limited future for UV astronomy, without rapid action. If this situation does not change, the routine access to the far-UV that we have enjoyed for more than 25 years, since the launch of IUE, will end by around 2008. Although the James Webb Space Tel...