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Welcome to the South by Southwest Festival
in Austin, Texas.
Every year, it's where film, music,
and emerging technologies collide
in one exciting city, arguably, the country's
live-music capital.
But for the next few days, the festival
is welcoming a very special guest, NASA,
and a full-scale model of the next great space observatory,
the James Webb Space Telescope.
The Webb is the successor to the legendary Hubble Space
Telescope and will be launched in 2018.
Following up on the groundbreaking discoveries
of Hubble, Webb will look more than 13 billion years
back in time to see how galaxies grew,
how stars and planets form, and search for habitable worlds.
If you're in the area, stop by for this unique opportunity
to see space technologies so up close you can touch it.
But if you can't be here, join me each day,
and I'll bring you the Webb like you've never seen it before.