Teen Skepchick’s Reality Checks 5.31
- The Hubble telescope’s successor is behind schedule and over budget. [via The New York Times]
- Body odor can give away your age. [via ScienceDaily]
- Not all feminists are alike–a gamer’s perspective. [via Gaming as Women]
- Supervolcanoes are quick to form and erupt. [via BBC News]
Featured image: The Einstein Observatory, a space-based telescope from 1978. From NASA.
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The article on the problems with delays and cost overruns on the James Webb space telescope project is 18 months old. What’s the current status?
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The launch is still scheduled for 2018, not 2014. Here’s a more recent update on the status of the telescope.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18253444
More specific information can be found on the James Webb Space Telescope NASA page.
http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/