Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket launches with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope onboard, Saturday, Dec. 25, 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 (sometimes called JWST or Webb) 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. Image by senior NASA photographer Bill Ingalls / Credit

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