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Filippenko: NSF graduate fellowships and NASA funding were cut in half
“The number of National Science Foundation graduate fellowships, for example, was cut in half this year. NASA funding has been cut in half”
Filippenko: JWST reveals galaxies formed earlier than astrophysics models predicted
“Over the whole sky, we can see about a trillion galaxies, a million, million galaxies, and some of them we see forming just a few hundred million years after the explosive birth of the universe, the so-called Big Bang, and one of the interesting aspects of thi…”
Filippenko: JWST cost US taxpayers roughly six dollars per year
“Over 10 years, the ten billion dollar cost of the web Was one six dollar hamburger per U.S. Taxpayer per year.”
Filippenko: JWST has six times the light-collecting area of Hubble
“Webb has six times the collecting area of Hubble, so it's a more powerful telescope.”