Future Telescopes Could be Seeing the Wrong Planets

How telescopes make the universe self-aware Telescopes are time machines. Someday, they could take us to a time before starlight. The future of astronomy, from the Webb Space Telescope to gravitational waves, telescopes of the future will bring even more of history into focus.

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