Looking at the amazing images from #JWST. It is an amazing instrument that will expand our understanding of the universe.

Because of cost and complexity it will be a singular unique resource to the scientific community. I wonder if #Astronomy could also benefit from a constellation of less ambitious but more numerous space-born instruments that could vastly expand the non-terrestrial telescope time available.

What science could be done with 20, 30 or more telescopes sized to be placed into orbit on a Falcon 9? #SpaceX could be asked to fund the launches as an offset for the light pollution caused by #Starlink, perhaps? What would it look like if most major Universities could afford to run their own space telescope, even if a more limited instrument than JWST? we've seen what a 10-fold reduction in access to LEO has done for terrestrial observation, what can be done with space observation if it doesn't take years of government funding to make it happen?