🧵Great to see the announcement of the #JWST mid course correction analysis! Plenty of fuel to get through many years of science. It can’t be emphasized enough that science takes time to mature. 1/n
https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1476194840018890756
When something new and exciting is discovered in one year, it takes time to understand. Often we find that we need more observations, and those can take another year or more to get! 2/n
If a mission is too short, it will likely not be able to do some of the most exciting science. 3/n
Significantly more than 10 years of fuel makes it much more likely that we can get the best #JWST science done. 4/n
One more point: more time also makes it more likely that we can be ready when something exciting happens - maybe the next interstellar comet or nearby supernova! 5/n
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