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What did the first JWST images reveal?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Micrometeorites Are Bigger Than Hubble

The James Webb telescope is six meters wide, compared to two and a half meters for hubble. The quality of images will slowly degrade as it gets impinged by these micro meteorites overtime. But the optics are beautiful,. You know, they're covered in gold, and they're just enormous. And that's key because you want to see far into the universe, you need to gather more light.

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