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James Webb Space Telescope

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been providing amazing images of the universe since April 1990 and has led to remarkable discoveries. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the next-generation telescope that will peer even deeper into space and unveil even more mysteries. Both of these extraordinary telescopes are now the topics of two free e-Books available from the Apple iBookstore. The books are written on a high-school level and can be viewed using iPads with the free iBooks app. Because they're about two NASA space telescopes, the Hubble and its successor, the Webb, the books complement each other. “These new e-books from NASA will allow people to discover Hubble and Webb in a whole new way-both the science and the technology behind building them," said Amber Straughn, an astrophysicist on the Webb telescope project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "They collect all of the amazing resources about these two observatories in an excellent product that I think people will really enjoy.” The e-books are highly interactive and include image galleries and video. Tracy Vogel of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., is part of the design team t

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