Readers discuss JWST’s peek into the early universe and more

More than words

The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, has been a big success, thanks in large part to senior project scientist Jane Rigby, who is also an advocate for LGBTQ+ astronomers, Lisa Grossman reported in “The telescope whisperer” (SN: 8/12/23, p. 24).

“Thank you for including the article on Jane Rigby…. She is clearly an outstanding scientist, a leader in her field and certainly deserves the recognition this article gave her,” reader Dorothy Tepper wrote. “The only way this article came up short was that there are no photographs of her actually doing any science….