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| Webb telescope launched - so far everything works |
| 2021-12-26 |
| [NASA] NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launched at 7:20 a.m. EST Saturday on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, South America. A joint effort with ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency, the Webb observatory is NASA's revolutionary flagship mission to seek the light from the first galaxies in the early universe and to explore our own solar system, as well as planets orbiting other stars, called exoplanets. Hubble can distinguish sufficient to identify structures 400 million years after big bang. Webb will do about 200 million years if it works right |
| Posted by:Lord Garth |
| #5 The people making this mission happen would never even think of something like "gain of function" bio research. They actually understand ho much can go wrong. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-12-26 13:02 |
| #4 THIS is real news. Would that the media would pay more attention to scientific discovery and progress like this than the drivel they serve up every day. |
| Posted by: Tom 2021-12-26 12:43 |
| #3 ^ This brother knows. Hoopin' fuh real. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-12-26 12:22 |
| #2 There's probably one of those plaques they put on such things for aliens to find and they didn't have time to change it to the "The George Floyd Giant Hoop into Deep Space." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-12-26 12:12 |
| #1 ...I was pleasantly surprised to see that NASA stood its ground on not renaming the JWST - the usual suspects tried to gin up 'outrage' over the name on the grounds that LGBTQ Etc. people at NASA were fired or investigated sixty years ago because of their LGBTQ Etc.-ness. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2021-12-26 12:07 |