There is good news from the astronomy and astrophysics community today as the James Webb telescope has now reached its final orbit and completed its deployment. It was launched on Christmas Day of 2021, but has been in development for thirty years already, and this summer all of that work and preparation will be paid off with the first of many new images of the distant reaches of the Universe.

In September 1989, before the now famous Hubble Space Telescope had even launched, astronomers around...
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