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The most powerful space telescope ever built will look back in time to the Dark Ages of the universe

  • Written by Chris Impey, University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
imageHubble took pictures of the oldest galaxies it could – seen here – but the James Webb Space Telescope can go back much farther in time.NASA

Some have called NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope the “telescope that ate astronomy.” It is the most powerful space telescope ever built and a complex piece of mechanical...

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