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An image released by NASA on July 12, 2022, shows the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region in the Carina Nebula, captured in infrared light by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. (Photo/JTA-NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI-Handout via Xinhua)
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The James Webb Telescope looks at the universe through the eyes of God

Rabbi Benjamin Resnick by Rabbi Benjamin Resnick and JTA July 19, 2022

Back in December, human beings, a weird variety of uniquely frail, lithe and hairless monkeys, launched into space a new, $10 billion dollar telescope, 21 feet in diameter and, like […]

Jessica Meir prepares to be submerged in NASA's 6.2 million gallon Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory for spacewalk training. (Photo/JTA-NASA-Josh Valcarcel)
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Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir wants to be the first woman on the moon

by Hadas Ragolsky Chrissy and JTA November 30, 2020
Jessica Meir's Hanukkah socks, seen far above earth. (JTA/Jessica Meir/Twitter)
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Astronaut Jessica Meir tweets Hanukkah message from space

Marcy Oster by Marcy Oster and JTA December 23, 2019

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