A Cosmic Conversation with Avi Loeb
Somewhere in the Skies
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The Story of the James Webb Space Telescope
I was on the st advisory, scientific advisory committee that designed the web telescope. At the time i was mainly working on the first stars in the universe. We would never exist unless carbon and oxygen were produced by stars. That's our cosmic roots. The james webb space telescope was designed to give us the deepest images of the universe. And it was designed to observe in the infered because the wave length of light emitted by those stars is stretched by the cosmic expansion. So when you observe an object like omoamua passing within the orbit of the earth around the sun, you can see it from two different directions,. if you observe it from earth and from the web telescopes.
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