“The $8 billion-plus James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be the most advanced telescope ever sent into space when it’s launched in 2020. Its discoveries will no doubt stagger humanity, just as the Hubble Space Telescope’s have for the past 27 years. Yet the basic design and components for JWST, Hubble and almost all other space telescopes ever launched would easily be understood by Newton and his 17th-century contemporaries….”
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