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| | Messier 87 is also called M87 or NGC 4486 and this is an elliptical supergiant galaxy that is called a "Virgo A" or the Smoking Gun.
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| | James Webb Space Telescope
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| | I get a lot of questions asking why the James Webb Space Telescope is infrared, and how its images can hope to compare to the (primarily) optical Hubble Space Telescope. Why would NASA build something that isn't going to capture beautiful images exactly like Hubble does? The short answer to this is that JWST will absolutely capture beautiful images of the universe, even if it won't see exactly what Hubble does. (Spoiler: it will see a lot of things even better.) There are legit scientific reasons for JWS...
| | spaceexplored.com
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