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    Two Weeks In, the Webb Space Telescope Is Reshaping Astronomy

    Just posting the first few paragraphs. Several pics, comparisons between Webb and Hubble images, etc. Good article.
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    In the days after the mega-telescope started delivering data, astronomers reported exciting new discoveries about galaxies, stars, exoplanets and even Jupiter.

    As soon as President Biden unveiled the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on July 11, Massimo Pascale and his team sprang into action.

    Coordinating over Slack, Pascale, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley, and 14 collaborators divvied up tasks. The image showed thousands of galaxies in a pinprick-size portion of the sky, some magnified as their light bent around a central cluster of galaxies. The team set to work scrutinizing the image, hoping to publish the very first JWST science paper. "We worked nonstop," said Pascale. "It was like an escape room."

    Three days later, just minutes before the daily deadline on arxiv.org, the server where scientists can upload early versions of papers, the team submitted their research. They missed out on being first by 13 seconds, "which was pretty funny," said Pascale...

    Quanta Magazine

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