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Telescopes and space missions

Telescopes and space missions

JWST is performing ‘phenomenally’ one year on, say scientists

25 Dec 2022

A year after its launch, astronomers are revealing the secrets of the universe, as the first scientific results from observations made by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are released. This month, Physics World is publishing a series of blog posts on the discoveries. This is the fourth post in the series – you can read the previous one here.

Artist's impression of JWST, with the telescope floating in space between a filamentous web of stars and galaxies and a star with exoplanets orbiting around it
The journey is just beginning: it’s been a year since the JWST launched, and it’s now well on its way to transforming astronomy. (Courtesy: ESA/ATG Medialab).
It’s been a year since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched, and after its dangerous dep

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Keith Cooper is a science journalist based in the UK. His book The Contact Paradox: Challenging Our Assumptions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Bloomsbury Sigma) is available now. Follow him @21stCenturySETI on Twitter
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