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The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

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Webb's mirror, which captures light, is over 21 feet across. That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror, meaning Webb has six times the light-collecting area.

Over the past few years or so the most talked about kind of telescope was the one that is meant to operate in space. An ...

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Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

The problem was Hubble's large mirror. Instead of using lenses ... of a lot harder to fix something like that on a telescope floating in space than it is for a person. This could have been the ...

That's over two-and-a-half times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's mirror, meaning Webb has six times the light-collecting area. Capturing more light allows Webb to see more distant ...