Conversation: Richard & the Pillars of Creation

ANN:  Richard Panek has just published a book called The Pillars of Creation.  It’s about the James Webb Space Telescope — which I call JWST and Richard calls Webb, and there’s a story behind that difference but it’s not relevant here — and how it got built and what it’s finding.  And Richard, this is SUCH a big subject, the whole multi-year, multi-field enormous expensive telescope. I can imagine ponderous tomes on the politics and construction alone.  How did you decide which steps of the JWST’s...