Hubble Tension

27th December 2023

For fans of physical cosmology, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the MVP of the last few years. With its extremely sensitive infrared instrument package, scientists have been able to focus on celestial objects too distant for any prior equipment to detect. This has yielded a wealth of information on everything from the earliest…

Schrodinger’s Galaxy

21st September 2022

If you’re following the latest news out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)—and you should be, because it’s arguably the most powerful observational tool mankind has ever created—you probably saw a few headlines recently about a galaxy that seems to be visible at two different places simultaneously.  As usual, these headlines are the result…