Humanity Gets One Last Glimpse of the James Webb Space Telescope
The world’s most powerful telescope is boldly going further than any human eye has ever seen before. What will we find out there?
Launch teams monitor the flight progress of Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket carrying NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, Saturday, Dec. 25, 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 21.3 foot (6.5 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. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
2021, while not the return to normalcy optimistically hoped for in 2020, less optimistically hoped for in 2021, was not without it joys and triumphs.
