TRAVELLING TO THE EDGE OF TIME
Jun 08, 2022
3 minutes
rom a tropical rainforest to the edge of time itself, James Webb begins a voyage back to the birth of the Universe” – so went the launch narration when astronomy’s latest superpowered space explorer, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), lifted off from French Guiana on Christmas Day. Like most launch announcements, it employed a bit of poetic licence to add to the drama. But now that JWST is settled into its orbit and sending back its first calibration images, we might well ask:
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