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James Webb Space Telescope is 'science and magic rolled together,' says iconic astronomer Maggie Aderin-Pocock

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Maggie Aderin-Pocock grew up with dyslexia in government housing in London .

She is best known for co-hosting the BBC 's astronomy TV program " The Sky at Night " She has written a new book on the telescope, Webb 's Universe: The Space Telescope Images That Reveal Our Cosmic History .

James Webb Space Telescope's NIRSpec is a spectrometer that stretches light into its component colors, it's like making a rainbow in the lab.

It enables you to do remote chemistry by studying that spectrum.

It gives us all sorts of information about galaxies of stars and we can use that to get a better understanding.

Maggie Aderin-Pocock : "I tell them to reach for the stars. No matter what your stars are — my stars actually happen to be stars" The oldest stone circle isn't even Stonehenge, and it actually sits on African soil.

We can now find exoplanets going around distant stars and look at their atmospheres.

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