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Why the galaxy pictures from the Webb telescope are pretty cool

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The first public picture from the James Webb telescope is kind of cool and all, but you can’t fully appreciate it unless you know what those glowing blobs represent and how they came to be. Ponder this: Humans sent a telescope the size of a tennis court into space and parked it four times farther away than the moon.

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Launching a telescope to explore the Big Bang

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NASA is launching the James Webb Space Telescope on December 22, 2021 with an objective to collect data on light from 13.8 Tags: Los Angeles Times , NASA , space , telescope. billion light-years away. Nothing to it.

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