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+Reads and plots the current teperatures of the James Webb Space Telescope.
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+`load.py` loads the same source that [Where is Webb](https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html?units=metric) uses and saves it to a CSV file.
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+`graph.py` reads that CSV file and plots the data