The James Webb Telescope is A Powerful Time Machine

How seeing into the infrared can reveal the origin of everything

Photo by Martin Sattler on Unsplash

As I write, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), destined for Lagrange point 2 (about a million miles above the Earth), is about to start unfolding its tennis-court sized sunshield. The delicate membranes which make up the sunshield are then due to separate in the…