YouTube Gold: What The James Webb Space Telescope Will Soon See

KOUROU, FRENCH GUIANA - DECEMBER 25: In this handout image provided by the U.S. National Aeronatics and Space Administration (NASA), Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket launches with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard, from the ELA-3 Launch Zone of Europes Spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre at Europes Spaceport, at the Guiana Space Center on December 25, 2021, 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.Over the centuries, humanity has occasionally seen enormous breakthroughs. Steam power fueled the Industrial Revolution. The Wright Brothers stunned the world when they flew a few brief seconds at Kitty Hawk in 1903. A scant 24 years later, Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic and 42 years after that, Neil Armstrong trod on the moon.

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