Science Matters: Understanding The James Webb Space Telescope
The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss
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The Primary Mirror of the James Web Space Telescope
The primary mirror of the james web space telescope is made a brilliant and its coated with a very thin layer of gold. A tenth of a millionth of a meter thick, by 25 meters square, you give about forty eight grams of gold. That's the same amount of gold that you might have if you had a solid gold golf ball. And i suppose some space raters in the far future might want to collect the gold from the jamesburg space telescope. But, but it won't be easy to do because it's over a million miles away from the earth.
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