How the James Webb Space Telescope is akin to a real-life time machine

The world spent $10bn on the James Webb Space Telescope - that's about a dollar per person alive over 20 years, so it's a few cents per person per year. Wasn't it worth a few cents out of your annual budget?

JWST in outer space. James Webb telescope far galaxy explore. Sci-fi space collage. Astronomy science. Elemets of this image furnished by NASA

Irish people can be proud of the success of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as Irish scientist Professor Tom Ray and Dr Patrick Kavanagh helped to build one of the cameras that it uses. 

Dr Kavanagh will give a public lecture about it on July 18 (www.astronomy.ie) and explain just how important this particular camera is, as it will show us the very early universe just after the Big Bang. That is invisible to even the Hubble Space Telescope, which JWST supercedes.