Arts & Leisure
Look Up: Peering clearly and deeply back in time with the James Webb Space Telescope

Artist’s concept of the James Webb Space Telescope that shows part of the top of the sunshield, its primary mirror, mirror support struts, and spacecraft bus which is the support structure of the observatory that provides power, communications, data handling, propulsion and other functions.
Image / NASA-GSFC, Adriana M. Gutierrez (CI Lab)
April 24, 2025
Astonishment and awe are two things I feel when viewing images released during the first three years since the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Even if one objects to the ten-billion-dollar price tag on its development, construction, an …
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