Astronomers Prepare to Turn Webb Telescope Toward Nearby Super-Earths - ExtremeTech

NASA will soon use the James Webb Space Telescope to examine nearby Super-Earths in the hopes of learning more about them than ever before.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been in space for about six months, which is just a fraction of the time NASA spent designing and building it. All that effort is about to pay off, though. W… [+2659 chars]

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