Can We Use the Web to Look at This?

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Anyone in the world can write a proposal, say, i want to use webb to look at this. Can we use it? Yes, ye. I think i was just stunned for for a good minute there. I probably cried a little bit. Exciting day. We totally felt like under dogs. It feels like a dream. For the last few months, eh, yes. I've been talking to scientists who have been awarded time to use the telescope. And these conversations, they just just leave me with a big smile. I dustar their sense of wonder and aweike,. These are people who get to explore the frontiers of the cosmos. They just have so many unanswered

After decades of planning, NASA is finally (finally!) set to launch the successor to the Hubble. The new Webb telescope will be a paradigm shift for astronomy, exploring places in the cosmos that have been completely invisible to us until now. But first, it has to safely reach a point nearly a million miles away from the Earth.

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