Origins Space Telescope

NASA Mission Concept for 2020 Decadal. For more information visit

[A R Cooray @acooray]

Robert H. Goddard Award from NASA GSFC this year is to science teams of @OriginsTele and @luvoirtelescope design studies. One of these or @nasahabex or @lynxobservatory will be NASA's next great observatory after JWST and Roman. Congrats teams!

[Origins Space Telescope @OriginsTele]

@starfleetjames @astrogrant @luvoirtelescope @lynxobservatory @nasahabex .@acooray Can you help to point out an Origins cover download?

[Shawn Domagal-Goldman @shawndgoldman]

@battersbot, summarizing the transformative goals of the @OriginsTele: 1) How does the universe work? 2) How did we get here? 3) Are we alone? 4) Discovery of new phenomena. #AAS235 #NewGreatObservatories

[Origins Space Telescope @OriginsTele]

@astrogrant @PHertzNASA Happening NOW! Full crowd, lots of love, come join!

[Grant Tremblay @astrogrant]

TODAY at #AAS235. 2pm, room 318A.

Four missions.
One vision.

https://t.co/TPPDgbm316

#Astro2020 @PHertzNASA

[Origins Space Telescope @OriginsTele]

@acooray Origins team together and celebrating a job well done on the mission concepts and report.

[Origins Space Telescope @OriginsTele]

@acooray A few more celebratory photos. What an amazing team!

[Origins Space Telescope @OriginsTele]

@eilatg @astrocaits We would not complain about that!

[Origins Space Telescope @OriginsTele]

@organism1974 @astrocaits @astrobiology I can't share @astrocaits presentation but here's a link to the full Origins report (as PDF) if you're interested: https://t.co/nUm8tCtuRc

[Origins Space Telescope @OriginsTele]

@markmccaughrean @astrocaits @EricMamajek Also check out the spectral survey plot, which factors in the very fast mapping speed of Origins. The time to do a huge spectral line survey is improved by a factor of *a billion* with Origins relative to Herschel and 10,000 relative to SPICA.

[Origins Space Telescope @OriginsTele]

@markmccaughrean @astrocaits @EricMamajek Here you go! (Appendix 3 page 12 of the report)

[Origins Space Telescope @OriginsTele]

Reminder Origins is a *general purpose observatory.* It's for everybody! Come see what it can do for you.

[Origins Space Telescope @OriginsTele]

Stefanie Milam giving an Origins hyperwall talk by the NASA booth right now! (It's awesome! Plus the NASA calendars are right here if that helps to sweeten the deal...)

[Origins Space Telescope @OriginsTele]

Read more about all of these science cases, and the technology that make them possible, in the final report available here: https://t.co/nUm8tCtuRc

[Origins Space Telescope @OriginsTele]

"Enabling a Decade of Discovery with Origins" happening NOW in 307B! An awesome lineup of speakers (including Caitlin Casey, Ilse Cleeves, Laura Kriedberg, Dom Pesce, Mike Line, Anna Sajina, and members of your lovable Origins science team!). #AAS235 See you there!

[Origins Space Telescope @OriginsTele]

Origins could resolve the shadows of black holes that are 100x smaller in angular size than M87 or SgrA*. Origins+EHT could resolve billion solar mass black holes at ALL redshifts!