Launch teams monitor the countdown to the launch of the Ariane 5 rocket carrying the James Webb Space Telescope, 25 December 2021, in the Jupiter Center at the Guiana Space Center 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 history - from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe. Image by senior NASA photographer Bill Ingalls / Credit Editorial Use only

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