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July 12 marks one year since the James Webb Space Telescope's first four images were released to the public.
To mark the occasion, NASA expert Taylor Hutchison spoke to Space.com about the impact the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope . The astrophysicist also explained what could be forthcoming from the JWST during its second year of operations. has changed astronomy since its first images were seen by the public on July 11 and July 12, 2022. "Oh, gosh! It's changed so much. It's funny; this is a telescope that we were anticipating for many, many years. And now that we have this data, it's really opened up so much science that wasn't possible before," Hutchison exclaimed.
"NASA put out four science goals for this observatory. And one of them happened to be trying to look back in time, as far as we possibly can, to see some of these first galaxies that ever formed," Hutchison said."I think that's probably the most exciting part to me; we're continuing to push the limits of how much further we can go and how much we can push this telescope to see as far as it possibly can.
The current limit of the JWST's vision has allowed astronomers to see light that has been traveling for around 13.4 billion years to reach us, meaning astronomers are catching glimpses of the
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