Space Policy Edition: Astronomy Goes Big, with Heidi Hammel
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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The Biggest Space Telescope Is Bigger Than Hubbl, Right?
The James Webb telescope is designed to answer a very different set of scientific questions than this super hubble kind of proposal putting in there, right? That theyou're taking these scientific questions, working backwards and saying, how do we answer them using various windows into the electromagnic spectrum. You learn different things about physical characteristics and the natural world by viewing the universe through these different pieces of the electromagnetic spectrum, right? We just can't emphasize that enough.
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