Our NASA and the European Space Agency plan to launch the billion dollar James Webb Telescope into orbit from the ESA spaceport in French Guiana on Halloween, though itâs neither a trick nor a treat.
The telescope is designed to look deep into space to see the earliest stars and galaxies that formed in the universe. Soon, astronomers will be able to use it to get a close look at thousands of planets. Maybe they will discover some other planets that are inhabited.
But now, along comes theoretical physicist Machio Kaku, a well-known professor at the City College of New York, to throw astronomical cold water on the idea.