Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) onboard, is seen at the launch pad, 23 December 2021, at Europe's Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. The JWST (sometimes called 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. A unique, digitally optimised version of a NASA image by senior NASA photographer Bill Ingalls / credit NASA.

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