The James Webb Space Telescope owes its success to Hubble’s bumpy start

When the Hubble Space Telescope launched in April 1990, it was an instrument decades in the making. Originally called the Large Space Telescope, Hubble was the most advanced telescope ever deployed at the time and promised to give us a view of the universe unlike anything we’d ever seen before.

Almost as soon as we started taking pictures with Hubble, though, it was painfully clear that something was wrong. A “spherical aberration” was blurring the images, distorting the details, and making faint structures in the universe difficult hard to detect.

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