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nasa s james web telescope has taken more than a month to reach its designated orbit point. that hope to look back as far back in time as 13 billion years ago when the first stars and galaxies were forming and provide clues as to the origins of the universe. singer eric clapton continuing his parade of anti-vax nonsense and this time he says he believes people vaccinated against coronavirus are under mass hypnosis. he is very serious about this. in an interview, clapton, who is vaccinated, argued that subliminal messaging hidden in advertising is what s leading people to get vaccinated. obviously this is totally b.s. and it s discredited by scientists to boot. i stay out too late taylor swift firing back at the front man of blur who said that swift doesn t write her own songs. swift said, quote, i was such a
world with it. the james web space telescope launched into space on christmas day. tucked inside the nose cone of the european space agency rocket. within minutes of the launch all the rockets parts fell away. now the telescope is on its own. heading for its home a million miles away. it will take the telescope a month to get there. look at the time line. the yellow triangle on the left side of the screen is the current position of the telescope. the far right object on the time line that s where it s going. while it s trying to get there the telescope will go from looking like this. to looking like this. it will take hundreds of maneuvers over four weeks for it to fully unfold unnecessary points. if anything goes wrong at any point. there s nothing human kind can do about it. we can t send somebody out there to fix it. the james web telescope is years behind schedule. billions of dollars over budget.
unlike hubble that sees primarily visible light, the web telescope will gaze at infrared light that can pierce through cosmic gas and dust that might otherwise obscure some objects from view. but a lot of things need to go right for this telescope to be a success. once, hopefully successfully launched a million miles into space, the mirror which is nearly 21 feet across at the heart of the telescope needs to be kept very, very cold which isn t always possible when you re orbiting around the sun. a five-layer sun shield needs to unfold and an spf of over 1 million. scientists and astronomers are nervous but excited. it a cliche to say it will change the course of astronomy but it might very well do that because it s such a big capability. we are going to learn things about how galaxies were formed and how the earth came into
well, nasa is on the verge of launching a historic new space mission. in just a few weeks the news james webb space telescope will be rocketed into space eventually traveling 1 million miles from earth. the web telescope will help answer some of humanity s most compelling questions about life in our university and the possibility of life on other planets. here s a preview. when we started the study was considered pretty fringy. we didn t even know if there were any planets beyond our solar system. and we spent a lot of time building up credibility, making a distinction between ourselves and the folks who report seeing little green men in spaceships and being abducted. i mean, people would be writing books about the setting