23 January 2022 Telescopes

James Webb Space Telescope

Goddard Space Flight Center

Image credit: NASA/Desiree Stover

Built with the intent to explore the deepest mysteries of our universe, the world's largest and most powerful telescope is now fully deployed.

Image credit: NASA/Desiree Stover

From NASA's James Webb Space Telescope website:

The James Webb Space Telescope is the world’s largest, most powerful, and most complex space science telescope ever built. Webb will solve mysteries in our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international program led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.

Learn more about Webb at:

webb.nasa.gov
nasa.gov/webb
webbtelescope.org
stsci.edu/jwst (for astronomers)