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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... | |
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manyworlds.space
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| | | | | Early this spring, the organizers of an exoplanet science gathering at Cambridge University put out the word that they would host a major meeting this summer. Within a week, the 300 allotted slots had been filled by scientists aspiring and veteran, and within a short time the waiting list was up to 150 more.... | |
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| | | | | Explore the surface of Mars, fly through a solar flare, and bask in the glow of a Uranian sunset. Turn on, tune in, and space out to relaxing music and | |
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manyworlds.space
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| | | Before the discovery of the first exoplanet that orbits a star like ours, 51 Pegasi b, the assumption of solar system scientists was that others planetary systems that might exist were likely to be like ours. Small rocky planets in the inner solar system, big gas giants like Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune beyond and, back... | ||
