The Webb Telescope is making incredible discoveries: It may go dark
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-webb-telescope-incredible-discoveries-dark.html
The Webb Telescope is making incredible discoveries: It may go dark
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-webb-telescope-incredible-discoveries-dark.html
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That’s what a 47% cut to science looks like. At least one face of it. Webb has improved our understanding of the early universe more than we had thought possible and now anti-intellectualism will aim to end that. It’s a shame.
Well, I never. This is an absolutely incorrect use of a colon in the title.
how can you put 10bil+ into something and then just let it go? xD
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Hand it over to another space agency then so it can continue operations… Europe, Japan, India, Canada… they all have their own space agencies who already work with NASA.
I genuinely pray to a god i don’t believe exists that this doesn’t happen. Everything he’s done has affected me, but taking away something that gives me and billions of others such joy is just evil. Fuck Krasnov
Vote every election and vote against every republican
Somebody leak the control access codes to ESA or something.
If you think that Trump policies will result in the Webb telescope being decommissioned then you are beyond help.
Every time I see this, I want to cry. Shutting down the JWST would be a scientific atrocity. It’s got so much more to show us.
I don’t think it will happen, but even the fact that it might makes me so sad and angry.
Sell access to another global agency ffs. What kind of businessman is this.
Webb is a came changer and I just don’t see anyone deciding to let it go dark.
NASA it is an amazing institution that has done an amazing service advancing science and our understanding of the universe.
That said, as with any bureaucracy I have no doubt there’s a lot of there that could use trimming. I’m just not smart enough to say how much would be appropriate.
Give controls to some astro nerd, he will do it for free.
First, the title is click-bait even within the context of the article:
> “While NASA’s proposed budget retains some funding for the Hubble and Webb telescopes, they could become practically useless given the cuts planned for the agency’s science staff.”
Second, I do not believe a flagship such as the JWST is going to be shut down before its time, even in this current budget climate. In the face of NASA cuts, I see it as a scare story – as old as politics – just like cities warn of cuts to essential services and the like when budgets are threatened, while there are so many less impactful cuts that could be made.
It’s just sad to see the US nosedive from the world’s leading space explorers to a bunch of regressive, appeasing luddites.
What a catastrophic and impressively rapid fall from grace.
If you don’t give, it goes dark. You gotta give!
Because science is “woke” to those kinds of people.