This new space telescope should show us what the universe looked like as a baby
The upcoming launch of NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope should let astronomers see what some of the universe's first stars and galaxies looked like soon after the Big Bang.
Imagine knowing nothing about your childhood, nothing about where you came from, and spending years hunting for the answers. Then someone hands you a just-discovered trove of photographs of yourself as an infant. You'd finally be able to scrutinize every detail, searching for clues about yourself and how you came to be the way you are.
That's just what it will be like for astronomers once a long-anticipated, $10-billion telescope finally blasts off into space in the coming days. If all goes well, it will soon show them what the universe looked like as a , nearly 14
