Space Telescope · 2021

James Webb Space Telescope

The most powerful space telescope ever built, JWST launched on Christmas Day 2021. Observing in infrared, it sees through dust clouds opaque to Hubble, detects galaxies from within 300 million years of the Big Bang, and analyses exoplanet a

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