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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Will Take Us Back to the Dawn of the Cosmos

Tangled Webb

The long-awaited, long-overdue, super-expensive successor to Hubble is finally taking off. (We hope.)

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If you notice a subtle change in the atmosphere on the evening of Dec. 25, it might be the vacuum created from every space scientist and enthusiast in the world holding their breath.

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