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Part of the reason is that each telescope has different scientific goals. For example, Hubble is a visible wavelength telescope and we learned a lot from the data it collected and continues to collect. JWST is an infrared telescope designed to see wavelengths that Hubble cannot see, and has a different set of science goals.


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