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The James Webb Telescope Is a Fantastic Infered Detector

Welli pick this one for several reasons. One is that i hope that, a, the results from the james webb telescope a start giving interesting results during my lifetime. I really hopein the next five to ten years that this telescope e pays off. And so what it is, it's an infered detector. If it was on the earth, pointed at the moon, and there was a bumblebee on the moon that was still alive, giving off heat, this telescope would detect it. That's 300 thousand miles away, to a speck that's barely visible when you're right next to it. So what this telescope attends to do is to look back in time

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