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First images from the James Webb Space Telescope

Unexpected Elements

CHAPTER

The Micro Meteoroid That Hit the Mirror

Seeing that first image reminded me of Galileo's description of looking at the Pleiades, the seven sisters for the first time with his tiny telescope and seeing far more stars than he ever imagined. And I don't think people had appreciated how many background galaxies there are everywhere,. That every picture you take, there's a galaxy. Seeing them is just incredible.

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