A new cosmic dawn: peering across the universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Physics World
JANUARY 7, 2022
Pegged for launch in 2007 at a cost of $1bn, in 2002 it was renamed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) after the former NASA administrator. Yet those dreams of a new telescope to study the evolution of galaxies and how stars and planets form quickly turned into a nightmare. But the telescope’s exoplanet studies will go deeper, too.
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