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First-ever James Webb Space Telescope image revealed

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Re: Pffft

I understand that some boffins (High-energy physicists) measure their targets for collisions of particles in 'picobarns', that is 10^^-12 of a barn door. So surely the sizes of the JWST mirrors should be described in terms of whole barn doors?

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