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The James Webb Space Telescope will be a technological marvel — and a challenge. To do everything astronomers want the telescope to do, NASA must outfit the observatory with a primary mirror that has a surface about seven times the size of the one on the Hubble Space Telescope, equip it with sophisticated infrared-sensing cameras and spectrographs, and place it in an orbit beyond Earth's moon. |
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