Launched: 2021 · NASA/ESA/CSA

James Webb Space Telescope

The most powerful space telescope ever built, JWST sees the universe in infrared — peering through dust clouds invisible to Hubble, and looking back to within 300 million years of the Big Bang. Its first images (July 2022) showed the deepes

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