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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