I always took the pushback against the original photo to be from a very vocal fringe. But if people want better images of astrophysical observations they shoul

I always took the pushback against the original photo to be from a very vocal fringe. But if people want better images of astrophysical observations they should express their support for increasing that funding accordingly. Physics needs huge, expensive, long term projects to expand our knowledge. And those projects will lead to this we can’t imagine at the outset and there will be jobs for many along the way. (Jobs for the best and the brightest and don’t boil down to getting people to buy things from advertisements.) I’d love to see more research into expansion of the periodic table and a telescope that could utilize the suns gravitational lensing to resolve far off objects, to cherry pick a couple.