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The Webb Releases Astonishing Photos Tomorrow; World Shrugs
Our planet doesn’t see many stars right now.
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We are star stuff that forgot our origins
Go to wish on one, and you’ll wonder where they are.
Even in rich, well-privileged, America, few of us see the stars anymore.
We’ve been too busy. We have our sharply torn populace, shredded infrastructure, broken dreams and roiling revolutionary rambling, A pandemic, and politics, climate and biodiversity crisis, wars, and more.
There are other factors that limit us.
Literally, we have too much light pollution in our cities, haze from our toxic emissions, so many more satellites bleepin up the sky space, and too many survival style distractions down here to remember there even is heaven.
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Yet, we now have The James Webb Space Telescope.
For scientists, poets, and dreamers, this is it. It is the arrival at a place and time which allows us to drawn back the curtain to everything fantastic, inspiring, incredibly enlightening, and…