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As thousands of new pictures come in from the James Webb Space Telescope, it has made me change my perspective on the universe in recent months.

Astrophysical theories from the 1980s to 2010s probably have been turned upside down. Probably even Albert Einstein’s theories are no longer true.

We are now able to look more clearly at distant galaxies and stars. It is more likely now scientists will build even more powerful telescopes in the near future. It is probably the only new hope of exploring the universe than by traveling long distances, sending people and probes to distant stars. New and more powerful technologies will be launched into Earth’s orbit to study the heavens. Traveling to distant planets thousands of light years away by spacecraft by men and women is just not possible.

We thought the Hubble telescope was producing a wealth of new knowledge until the James Webb Telescope started delivering a clearer picture of the stars in the trillions in areas which we thought were just empty space.

Mike Brink

Enterprise