JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE

The James Webb Telescope was launched from French Guiana on Christmas.

The $10 billion telescope is nearly ready to begin capturing images that scientists hope will help uncover the mysteries of the universe. And help scope out other possible habitable planets.

The telescope just arrived safely at its deep-space orbit, and commissioning continues to go well.

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope, designed by NASA in the hopes of better understanding our universe, arrived at its destination after traveling 1 million miles through space. We successfully completed our burn to start #NASAWebb on its orbit of the 2nd Lagrange point (L2), about a million miles (1.5 million km) from Earth. https://t.co/bsIU3vccAj #UnfoldTheUniverse pic.twitter.com/WDhuANEP5h — NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) January 24, 2022The telescope, built as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, launched on Dec. 25 from French Guiana, as we previously reported. The Webb telescope is seven times more sensitive than the Hubble Space Telescope, and three times its size, The New York Times reported. 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.

With Webb on station, engineers will focus on aligning the telescope's optical system.

NASA Space Telescope FILE - This 2015 artist's rendering provided by Northrop Grumman via NASA shows the James Webb Space Telescope. On Monday, Jan. 24, 2022, the world’s biggest and most powerful space telescope reached its final destination 1 million miles away, one month after launching on a quest to behold the dawn of the universe. On command, the James Webb Space Telescope fired its rocket thrusters for nearly five minutes to go into orbit around the sun at its designated spot, and NASA confirmed the operation went as planned. At 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away, Webb is more than four times as distant as the moon. Considered the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits 330 miles (530 kilometers) up, Webb is too far away for emergency repairs.

After traveling almost a million miles, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reached its final destination today (Jan. 24).

The world's biggest and most powerful space telescope has reached its final destination 1 million miles away.

The world's biggest and most powerful space telescope has reached its final destination 1 million miles away.

The world’s biggest, most powerful space telescope reached its final destination 1 million miles from Earth on Monday, a month after it lifted off on a quest to behold the dawn of the universe. On command, the James Webb Space Telescope fired its rocket thrusters for nearly five minutes to go into orbit around the sun at its designated spot, and NASA confirmed the operation went as planned. The mirrors on the $10 billion observatory still must be meticulously aligned and the infrared detectors sufficiently chilled before science observations can begin in June.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will conduct a final burn on Monday (Jan. 21) to arrive in orbit around a point called L2.

If all goes well, Webb will be 100 times more powerful than Hubble​ — so sensitive to infrared light that it could detect the faint heat of a bumble bee as far away as the moon.

NASA's massive James Webb Space Telescope has notched another milestone with all 18 primary mirror segments and the secondary mirror fully deployed.

The James Webb Space Telescope continues to uncurl its mirrors to ultimately peer into the deep and distant universe.

As the James Webb Space Telescope begins the lengthy process of aligning its 18 primary mirror segments, astronomers wonder: What will the huge observatory look at first?

Scientists have found many planets orbiting distant stars, but so far no proof that any have moons. Now, researchers have detected signs of a large exomoon orbiting a Jupiter-like world.

The procedure will take about three months all told.

With the James Webb Space Telescope safely deployed, many scientists want to use it. To minimize the effect of unconscious biases, they go through a process developed for the Hubble Space Telescope.

A precise launch and pinpoint mid-course corrections so far have the telescope ready with plenty of propellant.

Every year seems to be historic for the space industry, but the last few have been exceptionally so.

Work for the James Webb Space Telescope is just beginning after was successfully deployed on Jan. 8.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — (AP) — NASA’s new space telescope opened its huge, gold-plated, flower-shaped mirror Saturday, the final step in the observatory’s dramatic unfurling. The last portion of the 21-foot (6.5-meter) mirror swung into place at flight controllers’ command, completing the unfolding of the James Webb Space Telescope. More powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope, the $10 billion Webb will scan the cosmos for light streaming from the first stars and galaxies formed 13.7 billion years ago. To accomplish this, NASA had to outfit Webb with the largest and most sensitive mirror ever launched — its “golden eye,” as scientists call it. READ: Hubble vs. Webb: Comparing a veteran space telescope to its next-gen successorFlight controllers in Baltimore began opening the primary mirror Friday, unfolding the left side like a drop-leaf table.

From a Christmas launch to a tricky deployment, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is now successfully deployed and scientists are thrilled.

Scientists elated with completion of complex Webb space telescope deploy sequence.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope unfolded the second "wing" of its massive primary mirror today (Jan. 8), marking the end of its complex deployment.

NASA's new space telescope has opened its gold-plated, flower-shaped mirror, the largest and most sensitive ever launched.

Unfolding the two side wings of the James Webb Space Telescope's golden primary mirror marks the last major task in assembling the observatory.

Catch a livestream of the James Webb Space Telescope as it zips towards its celestial perch.

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Engineers must make do with traditional telemetry because of a lot of practical problems.

A final latch unhooked to deploy the radiator into place, clearing the way for final mirror unfolding steps.

The newly released 4K video shows the observatory flying away from its rocket toward deep space.

With the secondary mirror in place, controllers will deploy final mirror segments by end of week.

The James Webb Space Telescope achieved another major milestone today, successfully extending its secondary mirror as it continues to sail seamlessly through its never-before-conducted deployment sequence on the way to its destination.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope successfully finishing tensioning its massive sunshield on Tuesday, marking a critical step in the powerful observatory's zero-gravity deployment.

The Webb team can now turn to the next big-ticket item on its list: getting the telescope's secondary and primary mirrors into the proper configuration. But it'll take a while to check those boxes.

With the five-layer sunshield deployed, engineers prepare to unfold Webb's mirrors.

NASA Space Telescope FILE - This combination of images from a computer animation made available by NASA in December 2021 depicts the unfolding of the components of the James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab via AP) (Uncredited)CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — (AP) — NASA aced the most complicated, critical job on its newly launched space telescope Tuesday: unrolling and stretching a sunshade the size of a tennis court. The 7-ton James Webb Space Telescope is so big that the sunshield and the primary gold-plated mirror had to be folded for launch. It is the biggest and most powerful observatory ever launched — 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope — enabling it to peer back to almost the beginning of time. "We’ve still got a lot of work to do, but getting the sunshield out and deployed is really, really big.”Engineers spent years redoing and tweaking the shade.

NASA has aced the most complicated, critical job on its newly launched space telescope: unrolling and stretching a sunshade the size of a tennis court.

NASA aced the most complicated, critical job on its newly launched space telescope Tuesday: unrolling and stretching a sunshade the size of a tennis court. Ground controllers cheered and bumped fists once the fifth and final layer of the sunshield was tightly secured. The 7-ton James Webb Space Telescope is so big that the sunshield and the primary gold-plated mirror had to be folded for launch.

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed all five layers of its tennis-court-sized sunshield.

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NASA Space Telescope This photo provided by NASA, the James Webb Space Telescope is separated in space on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope soared from French Guiana on South America’s northeastern coast, riding a European Ariane rocket into the Christmas morning sky. The $10 billion infrared observatory is intended as the successor to the aging Hubble Space Telescope. The tennis court-size sunshield on the James Webb Space Telescope is now fully open and in the process of being tightened. The $10 billion telescope — the largest and most powerful astronomical observatory ever launched — rocketed away Christmas Day from French Guiana.

NASA's new space telescope is doing well more than a week after liftoff, following a pair of problems overcome by ground controllers.

NASA’s huge, new space telescope is doing well more than a week after liftoff, following a pair of problems overcome by ground controllers, officials said Monday. The tennis court-size sunshield on the James Webb Space Telescope is now fully open and in the process of being tightened. The $10 billion telescope — the largest and most powerful astronomical observatory ever launched — rocketed away Christmas Day from French Guiana.

On Monday (Jan. 3), James Webb Space Telescope controllers began tightening the tension on its massive sunshield.

The recently launched James Webb Telescope should help determine if dark matter is made up of primordial black holes.

It will take two days to tension the sunshade, which is the size of a tennis court.

NASA personnel are spending the day studying the power subsystem of the massive James Webb Space Telescope to ensure the spacecraft is ready to execute a key procedure.

If all goes according to plan, the James Webb Space Telescope, launched on Christmas Day 2021 after years of delays, will usher in a new era of astronomy.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) successfully unfurled its sunshield on Friday, in another milestone for the groundbreaking project.

The team behind NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will take a day off after unfolding the observatory's massive sunshield.

The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope unfolded its huge sunshield on Friday (Dec. 31), pulling the five-layer structure out by sequentially deploying two booms.

Deploying the sunshade is crucial to its ability to look back toward the birth of the cosmos.

The world's largest and most powerful space telescope has blasted off on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the first stars and galaxies.

High wind will keep NASA's newest space telescope on the ground for at least another day.

If schedules hold, the James Webb telescope will start its 10-year mission on Christmas Eve.

NASA is shooting for next Friday to launch its newest space telescope.

Next week's launch of NASA's new space telescope is delayed for at least two days because of a communication problem between the observatory and the rocket.

The European Space Agency says the launch of a new NASA telescope to replace the famed Hubble observatory is being postponed.

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The change of date comes as the launch provider, Arianespace, recently conducted a successful Ariane 5 rocket launch in July, the first since August 2020.

Decades of work is in the balance as NASA enters the final stages before shipping the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to the launch site in the French Guiana.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The launch of NASA’s successor to the Hubble Space Telescope faces seven more months of delay, this time because of the pandemic and technical issues. Officials announced Thursday that the James Webb Space Telescope — the space agency's top science priority — is now scheduled to launch on Oct. 31, 2021. Budget reserves set aside two years ago during the last major assessment will cover any additional expenses, said Thomas Zurbuchen, the space agency's science mission chief. The sun shield is needed to keep the infrared telescope cold once in space. NASA plans to ship Webb next summer to its European launch site in French Guiana — Europe's contribution to the mission.