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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
How can anyone who has any inkling of astronomy in their veins not be excited about this? These days in a world full of nonsense, this telescope and what it could potentially show us is keeping me excited for the future. This has the potential to be one of, if not the greatest, scientific instruments of our lifetimes.
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I am wholly convinced the Webb is going to a launch us into a new era of Space science, including finding more discernable signs of life on distant planets.
Also note that when they say we can look back "further in time", what that means is that the light we see coming from stars when we look up into the sky is actually light arriving into our view that was sent out light years ago - including some that are 1000s of light years away. With the Webb, we can see more closely some of these planets that are much further away than the Hubble could, and look at the light they emit closer to the actual star - light that is still travelling to us before we can see it at least from conventional means.
I am so pumped for this.