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ESA Science & Technology - Visible and infrared views of the Horsehead Nebula
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Deployment Explorer Webb/NASA
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| | James Webb Space Telescope
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How far can the Hubble Space Telescope see? | Cool Cosmos
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| | How far can the Hubble Space Telescope see? | Cool Cosmos
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The Truth About Hubble, JWST, and False Color | NASA Blueshift
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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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Apollo 11 Flight Log, July 23, 1969: Preparing for Landing | Space
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| Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins spent their last full day in space before landing gearing up for their Earth return. See how.