Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket launches with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope onboard, 25 December 2021, from the ELA-3 Launch Zone of Europe's Spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb for short ) is a large infrared telescope with a foot ( meter) primary mirror. The observatory will study every phase of cosmic historyÑfrom within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe An optimised version of an image by senior NASA photographer Bill Ingalls; mandatory credit NASA /

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