The habeks observatory will come in two parts. One is a telescope, an optical telescope, but the second part is like a umbrella that floats alongside the telescope. We want to put up a giant, specially shaped screen called star shaving. It exists to be perfectly alined with the telescope and a star, so that it blocks out some of that light from the star.
To look into deep space is to look back in time. Ahead of the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, Unexplainable talked to scientists who hope to see “cosmic dawn,” a period long ago when the first starlight transformed the universe.
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