Is the Webb Space Telescope Going to Find Amazing Things?

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B d a o: Will the webb space telescope make these world shattering discoveries? You know, i don't know. It will certainly make big discoveries, because they're sort of target. The thing about building a new telescope or a new scientific experiment is you can't predict what you're going to see. So for the web ht, there's two obvious targets here. One is galaxies in the early universe, the early, the very early formation of stars and galaxies.

Welcome to the June 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! We are inaugurating a slightly different publication schedule, in which these monthly AMA will take the place of one of the regular Monday episodes, rather than being in addition to all of them. A slight tweak that will hopefully make my obligations a little more manageable.

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