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2023-09-17 Wickramasinghe - Castsldo Webb Telescope’s Year 1

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The James Webb Space Telescope has just celebrated its incredibly productive "first year," lazily orbiting in its extended L-2 location ... a million miles "behind" the Earth (as seen from the Sun).
What has it actually found?
Well, here's a (partial ...) list:

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But, the biggest "discovery" of all (still to be verified across Webb's highly anticipated Second Year ...) may be that the Universe itself -- based, in part, on Webb's unique first "deep field" IR image (see above), has revealed "surprisingly mature" galaxies at an "impossibly 'young' Universe Age": in fact, the Universe might be TWICE as old as astronomer have been telling us for more than 20 years -- not "13.8 billion years old" ... but, maybe, "26.7 billion years!"

Join us tonight ... and expect even MORE surprises

Richard C. Hoagland
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