The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to look back in time and study galaxies that existed shortly after the Big ...

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Scientists are now certain that James Webb will break every such record until the earliest observable light is eventually ...

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Observed with fasting, prayer, and night-long vigils, the festival commemorates ancient stories of Shiva and cosmic creation.

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