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  1. The James Webb Space Telescope has found galaxies that appear to have formed within 280 million years of the Big Bang, some containing heavy elements that shouldn’t have had time to form — and at least one peer-reviewed paper has now proposed that the universe might actually be 26.7 billion years old, almost twice the standard estimate
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    <p>The James Webb Space Telescope wasn’t supposed to find any of this
    #telescope #galaxies #james #space

  2. The James Webb Space Telescope has found galaxies that appear to have formed within 280 million years of the Big Bang, some containing heavy elements that shouldn’t have had time to form — and at least one peer-reviewed paper has now proposed that the universe might actually be 26.7 billion years old, almost twice the standard estimate
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>The James Webb Space Telescope wasn’t supposed to find any of this
    #telescope #galaxies #james #space

  3. The James Webb Space Telescope is parked a million miles from Earth and runs on less power than a household kettle — and its deployment sequence had 344 single points of failure, any one of which could have ended the mission
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    <p>The James Webb Space Telescope operates from a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point
    #telescope #million #earth #james