NASAs Webb telescope threatened with budget cuts. They would hit hard.

The James Webb Space Telescope is peering into distant worlds and rewriting our grasp of the cosmos.And in 2025, its budget is on track to get slashed.At January's Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Tom Brown, who heads Webb's mission office at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), showcased the observatory's achievements, while also revealing the institute has been asked to consider around 20 percent in cuts to its science and mission operations. (The institute operates majo