What Makes the Web Telescope So Powerful?

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For the next two weeks, an unexplainable bediving into the question answering machine that is the james webb space telescope. How far? Yooand stil a s g ow parks oitch. Ba, pensato, pars o, and still us go w parks oo gets us. O ka, bryan, before we get to some of the unanswered questions that the web telescope will let scientists try, an ir, let's just start with the telescope itself. What makes the web so powerful? So i talked to amberstrand. She's a anasa astrophysicist sho's worked on web for years. And she really pointed out that there are two key

After decades of planning, NASA is finally (finally!) set to launch the successor to the Hubble. The new Webb telescope will be a paradigm shift for astronomy, exploring places in the cosmos that have been completely invisible to us until now. But first, it has to safely reach a point nearly a million miles away from the Earth.

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