The habeks observatory will come in two parts. One is a telescope, an optical telescope,. But the key is the second part - it's like a umbrella that floats alongside the telescope. The star shade exists to be perfectly alined with the telescope and a stars so that it blocks out some of that light from the star.
To look into deep space is to look back in time. With the upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists hope to see “cosmic dawn,” a period long ago when the first starlight transformed the universe. But what happened before cosmic dawn? The Webb can’t tell us, though future telescopes could.
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