Sad Telescope Noises

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Sad Telescope Noises

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Poor James Webb Space Telescope, feeling like the forgotten middle child of the scientific world! While everyone's busy hanging holiday lights, this $10 billion marvel of engineering is about to launch into the cold vacuum of space with virtually zero fanfare. The JWST isn't just marginally better than Hubble—it's a whopping 300x improvement that will literally let us peek at the earliest galaxies formed after the Big Bang! Its gold-plated beryllium mirrors will detect infrared light from objects so distant that the universe's expansion has stretched their visible light into infrared wavelengths. Yet somehow, holiday shopping takes priority over what might be humanity's greatest eye into the cosmos. If telescopes could sigh dramatically, this one would be doing it right now.

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