When an Ariane 5 rocket lifted off from French Guiana on Christmas Day 2021, it carried a cargo of dreams: the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Those dreams belonged to astronomers hoping to peer farther into space than ever before, to a time when the first galaxies formed; to penetrate dust clouds to witness theContinue reading “How the James Webb telescope is changing astronomy”
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