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A new cosmic dawn: peering across the universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

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Yet even once the payload was hurled skyward atop a column of fire aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, mission scientists did not immediately exhale in relief. Constructing a mirror that size isn’t a problem per se , but it is an issue to fit it inside an Ariane 5 rocket that is just 4.57 m primary mirror. And then there’s the sunshield.

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The enduring mystery of the solar corona

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After the war, Richard Tousey of the US Naval Research Laboratory even explored UV and X-ray emissions from the Sun using instruments flown on V2 rockets captured from the Germans. In fact, almost one article about the solar corona has been published per day since 1943. Some might say “magnetic energy”.