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NASA’s Gold Mirrors Will Peer Back to the Cosmic Beginning

Published on 12/20/2021 at 12:10 PM

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is a time machine to the early universe, which uses massive golden mirrors to capture ancient light. The results will likely rewrite and expand our textbooks for years to come.

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