Science’s 2022 Breakthrough of the Year: A telescope’s golden eye sees the universe anew | Science
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 15, 2022
On 11 July, in a live broadcast from the White House, U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled the first image from what he called a “miraculous” new space telescope. Along with millions of people around the world, he marveled at a crush of thousands of galaxies, some seen as they were 13 billion years ago. “It’s hard to even fathom,” Biden said.
Not many telescopes get introduced by the president, but JWST*, the gold-plated wunderkind of astronomy built by NASA with the help of the European and Canadian space agencies, deserves . . .
