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2019

WFIRST Will Add Pieces to the Dark Matter Puzzle

Oct. 31, 2019 - WFIRST’s ability to survey wide swaths of the universe will help us figure out what dark matter could be made of by exploring the structure and distribution of both matter and dark matter across space and time.

WFIRST Space Telescope Fitted for ‘Starglasses’

Sept. 24, 2019 - When a new NASA space telescope opens its eyes in the mid-2020s, it will peer at the universe through some of the most sophisticated sunglasses ever designed.

WFIRST Will Help Uncover Universe’s Fate

Sept. 13, 2019 - NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope will explore how dark energy has affected the universe's expansion in the past, which will let us foresee its possible fate.

Telescope for NASA’s WFIRST Mission Advances to New Development Phase

Aug. 28, 2019 - On schedule to launch in the mid-2020s, NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will help uncover some of the biggest mysteries in the cosmos.

Jody Davis - Working at Goddard Inspires Davis to Inspire Others

Aug. 6, 2019 - Jody Davis, the Deputy Payload Systems Engineer on WFIRST, inspires Davis to inspire others--and she does.

Main Instrument for NASA’s WFIRST Mission Completes Milestone Review

June 26, 2019 - To know how the universe will end, we must know what has happened to it so far. This is just one mystery NASA's forthcoming Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission will tackle as it explores the distant cosmos. WFIRST's giant camera, the WFI, will be fundamental to this exploration, and it has just passed an important milestone.

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