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AskScience AMA Series: We're experts working on the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful observatory ever built. It's ready to launch. Ask us anything!The James Webb Space Telescope is the most complex, powerful and largest space telescope ever built, designed to fold up in its rocket before unfolding in space. After its scheduled Dec. 24, 2021, liftoff from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana , Webb will embark on a 29-day journey to an orbit one million miles from Earth.
For two weeks, it will systematically deploy its sensitive instruments, heat shield, and iconic primary mirror. Hundreds of moving parts have to work perfectly - there are no second chances. Once the space telescope is ready for operations six months after launch, it will unfold the universe like we've never seen it before. With its infrared vision, JWST will be able to study the first stars, early galaxies, and even the atmospheres of planets outside of our own solar system.
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