A Perennial Digression

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Finding Ourselves Among the Endless Heavens

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David Armstrong
Aug 07, 2022
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James Webb telescope captured the aftermath of a galactic collision |  Science News

The James Webb Telescope seems poised to occupy our cultural attention for years to come, doing what Hubble did when it first launched in 1990 but with greater technological power in the form of a comparably much more impressive digital imaging apparatus. Our eyes are beholding things with its help that our ancestors did not and could not have imagined …

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