NASA Will Use Repurposed Spy Telescope for Wide-Sky Survey

NASA is ready to move forward on a new telescope that will have 100 times the field of view of the Hubble Space Telescope and will use old spy-telescope hardware. It will aim to help scientists better understand dark energy, dark matter, planets around other stars and the universe's evolution. NASA announced the WFIRST telescope with a new video to unveil the mission. It received increased public attention when the National Reconnaissance Office (a U.S. intelligence agency) made the surpris