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Silas Laycock

Silas Laycock

Silas Laycock is professor of Astronomy at UMass Lowell.

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James Webb Space Telescope: An astronomer explains the stunning, newly released first images

By: - September 11, 2022

The James Webb Space Telescope team has released the first science-quality images from the new telescope. In them are the oldest galaxies ever seen by human eyes, evidence of water on a planet 1,000 light-years away, and incredible details showing the birth and death of stars. Webb’s purpose is to explore origins – of the […]