Like swapping out your old Nokia flip-phone for a Huawei P40 with 5G capabilities, NASA will soon be sending a telescope into space that will make the Hubble, which has been in service since 1990, look like a remnant from a more primitive time.
Known as the James Webb Space Telescope and set to launch later this year after multiple delays, the $10 billion project could provide scientific evidence that there are planets besides ours capable of sustaining life, finally proving that we are not, perhaps, alone.
Decades in the making, this massive, ambitious and logistically daunting space scheme sounds like something hatched from the mind of Isaac Asimov or Arthur C.
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