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On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...

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I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

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A Short History of Nearly Everything (fully revised and updated) ...

It's not quite clear what the latest Trek series wants to be: a rollicking adventure, a college coming-of-age story, or a ...