Kings of the Cosmos

<p style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(11,12,15,.95);font-family:'system-ui', Roboto, sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-line;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;">(Galactic image in the thumbnail - NASA - the James Webb Space Telescope Cartwheel galaxy, previously imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope).</p> <p style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(11,12,15,.95);font-family:'system-ui', Roboto, sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-line;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;">Galaxies, we might say, are kings of the cosmos. Their splendor and size has really only come to be known in the last 100 years, since Edwin Hubble finally determined that Andromeda, and many other galaxies just like it, were not just nebulae in our own universe.</p> <p style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(11,12,15,.95);font-family:'system-ui', Roboto, sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-line;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;">Hubble's telescope, the Hooker Telescope atop Mt. Wilson in California, was the largest of its day. But it's main mirror was only 100 inches. We say "only" because the collective surface area of the new James Webb Space Telescope, made up of 18 individual mirrors, is <a href='https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/observatory/ote/mirrors/index.html'>21 feet, four inches! </a></p> <p style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:14px;line-height:1.5;color:rgba(11,12,15,.95);font-family:'system-ui', Roboto, sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-line;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;">And what it has thus far captured is nothing short of astonishing, like being in the presence of royalty.</p> <p style="margin:10