NASA’s next flagship observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, is gearing up for launch into space Friday morning—finally. The Webb telescope is the largest observatory ever built to be launched into space. Its 18 gold-plated mirrors form a much more sensitive system than the Hubble Space Telescope, which it will succeed as humanity’s most powerful …

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