What Might NASA’s New Space Telescope Mean for Religion?
New discoveries are likely to change our understanding of the cosmos and our place in it
We are about to enter the golden age of space exploration. If you’re not a space nerd, this may be news to you, but NASA has embarked on one of the most ambitious projects in a generation.
On December 25, 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was launched into space. A successor to the immensely successful Hubble, the $10 billion telescope was designed to peer back billions of years to document the formation of the earliest stars and galaxies in the Universe. It was a massive undertaking that was 25 years in the making.
It’s not just NASA’s recent exploits that are generating renewed interest in space exploration. Civilian space travel and tourism have garnered recent headlines, thanks to commercial space companies like Blue Origin, Space X, and Virgin Galactic. Morgan Stanely estimates that by 2040, the global space industry could generate more than $1 trillion annually.
NASA’s James Webb telescope is potentially game-changing. What we will learn from it will not only change what we u…
