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Quanta Magazine

@QuantaMagazine

Last December, Quanta covered the James Webb Space Telescope in a story that has since won the Pulitzer Prize. Now hear

@StevenStrogatz

speak with

@mjrieke

and

@NikoleKLewis

about what the telescope is looking for. listen.quantamagazine.org/jow-105-s Transcript:

quantamagazine.org

Will the James Webb Space Telescope Reveal Another Earth? | Quanta Magazine

The space telescope is one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever undertaken. Marcia Rieke and Nikole Lewis, two of the scientists leading JWST investigations, talk to Steven Strogatz about...

11:41 AM · May 19, 2022

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Thank you all for re-igniting my love of science journalism! Keep up the great work!!

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This was interesting! I'm still thinking about the question re: the curious relationship between the mass of the galaxy and that of its central black hole. I understand that the hole's gravity field only spreads about 10 light years, but isn't gravity, in a way, infectious?