Rock & Gem

WEBB REVEALS Just How Tiny Our Spot in the Universe

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e culminatio­n of a 30-year collaborat­ion among NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency, the $11 billion James Webb Space Telescope has sent back its rst images since being launched and they are beyond belief!

Webb’s use of infrared detection is enabling us to see things never seen before. Per news reported by the journal Nature, it has already revealed “baby stars and colliding galaxies” and has pulled back the curtain of time by some 13.1 billion years. In addition to huge galaxies, Webb was able to focus on a single planet far, far away, sending home data revealing water vapor in its atmosphere. Says senior project scientist John Mather, “When are we gonna see another Earth?”

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