It's a masterpiece of robotic spacecraft engineering. 🤖
The Webb telescope should offer its first pictures six months after launch. 🌠
Infrared radiation will help us see the edge of the Universe. 🌌
The telescope launched from Guiana Space Centre in South America. 🇬🇫
NASA hired Northrop Grumman to design and construct the telescope. 🧰
The James Webb telescope will orbit the Sun a million miles away from Earth. 🌎
It's 100× more powerful than the Hubble, which calculated the age of the universe. 🌃
Its Near Infared Camera was designed & built by U Arizona and Lockheed Martin. 📷
Infrared astronomy has been very effective at discovering star clusters.
Meet the Canadian Space Agency, one of the partners of the James Webb project.
The European Space Agency helped to build the telescope's "Golden Eye." 👁
NASA, the ESA, and the CSA have been working on the telescope for 20+ years. 🔭
JWST has been mapped to a symphony of sounds to create a data sonification.
The pic of the year by JWST travelled from Le Point de Lagrange L2.
JWST pic covers a patch of sky approx. the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length.
There is a fascinating design behind the hexagon JWST mirrors.
Check out Hubble vs. JWST
Imagining having such NIRCam in my ARTstudio.app
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