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space telescope works to #UnfoldTheUniverse, it’s making a cameo in Times Square. Wishing you and yours a #HappyNewYear full of light & discovery. webb.nasa.gov 📸:

The gold hexagonal mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope are displayed on large monitors on the exterior of the Morgan Stanley building in New York's Times Square.

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#LFG 🌌 🧮

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Is JWT mainly meant for discovering 1st star 13.8 billion yrs ago? I was hoping it might be able to find out life on planets of other galaxies. Because I firmly believe there must be life elsewhere too. Probability can’t be as low as one in billions of trillion.

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Science Bob McGwier

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On exoplanets, it will search for the signatures of life in their atmospheres.

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Happy New Year NASA

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راشد انور

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Happy new year

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Happy New Year from Belgium 🇧🇪 any updates on the Sun Shield of JWST?

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Wishing you well James Webb

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happy New Year to you and your crewmates 🖖

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Spread the news, but please do not spread Covid-19! :)

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