It's a masterpiece of robotic spacecraft engineering. 🤖
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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.
