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NASA's Webb Telescope: Revolutionary Design, Runaway Costs
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In deep, cold space, nearly a million miles from Earth, a giant telescope later this decade
will scan for the first light to streak across the universe more than 13 billion years ago.
The seven-ton spacecraft, one of the most ambitious and costly science projects in U.S.
history, is under construction for NASA at Northrop Grumman Corp.'s space park complex in Redondo
Beach.
The aim is to capture the oldest light, taking cosmologists to the time after the big bang
when matter had cooled just enough to start forming the first blazing stars in what had been
empty darkness. Astronomers have long dreamed about peering into that provenance.
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