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THE TELESCOPE IN FOCUS

FIRST LIGHT

he JWST will be able to look back to around 200 million years after the Big Bang, when the first stars in the Universe formed. The first stars are thought to have been massive giants made of hydrogen and helium, whose short lives ended in the supernovae that created the heavier elements we detect

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